Company leader
Mansoor Khan
Founder and President
Persivia
Mansoor Khan, Sc.D., is president of Persivia, which he founded with his wife, Fauzia Khan, a physician. Persivia's CareSpace pulls records from electronic health systems, claims, and labs into one patient history, which its clients use to close gaps in care. Its roots go back to a medical textbook she wrote.
Supply-Chain Software and a Textbook
In the late 1990s he ran KeyCommerce, which made supply-chain software. "I've always been somewhat entrepreneurial, and that was the first big effort that I made," he said. Its business changed after September 11, 2001, and around then Fauzia Khan was preparing a textbook, A Guide to Diagnostic Testing, full of flowchart algorithms that showed a doctor what to do next. "My first thought was, this is nice, but it really needs to be in electronic form so that it can be injected into the clinical workflow," he said.
DiagnosisOne and Alere
That idea became DiagnosisOne, a web service that watched the clinical workflow and inserted evidence-based guidance when it spotted an event. For its first few years the data it needed were sparse and dirty, but Meaningful Use pushed decision support up hospitals' list of priorities. Alere bought the company, and he ran it as Alere Analytics.
Founding Persivia
In May 2015 the Khans launched Persivia in Lowell, Massachusetts, and soon bought Alere Analytics back from its parent. He handles customers and investors, and she, a people person who left Beth Israel hospital to work with him, runs the team. "We are actually very good friends, so it's not just a marriage, but an excellent friendship, too," he said. CareSpace keeps a running patient history and places care-management steps in the work its clients do each day.