Former ABC Television Network President Fili-Krushel to Join Healtheon/WebMD Broadcast Industry Veteran Named President and CEO of WebMD Health, The Consumer Division of Healtheon/WebMD
PR NEWSWIRE - March 28, 2000 17:41
ATLANTA, Mar 28, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Healtheon/WebMD Corporation (Nasdaq: HLTH), the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry, today announced that Patricia Fili-Krushel has been named president and CEO of WebMD Health, Healtheon/WebMD's consumer division. Fili-Krushel, who today resigned her post as president of ABC Television Network, a division of The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), brings a wealth of operational and managerial experience to Healtheon/WebMD, including the proven ability to execute against a strategic vision. During her tenure, she brought ABC from third to first place, and has a track record of delivering market leadership and financial performance that will maximize Healtheon/WebMD's partnerships and alliances.
"We're thrilled Pat is joining our management team as her experience will help advance our consumer franchise, while leveraging our assets to drive shareholder value," said Jeff Arnold, chief executive officer of Healtheon/WebMD. "Her proven operations expertise and managerial know-how combined with her understanding of the consumer marketplace complement our existing strengths and will help us to deliver on our vision. As Healtheon/WebMD links healthcare institutions, physicians and consumers together, Pat will play vital role in making this connection so that the empowered consumer can realize the benefits of this network."
Fili-Krushel's appointment at Healtheon/WebMD is effective April 10 and she will report directly to CEO Jeff Arnold. Her primary responsibilities include setting the strategic direction for and the oversight of Healtheon/WebMD consumer offerings and programming, including its online consumer portal WebMD Health, The Health Network, and other joint initiatives with various News Corp. media properties. As a member of the Healtheon/WebMD management team, Fili-Krushel will hold fiscal responsibilities to maximize the value of Healtheon/WebMD's media portfolio.
"Healtheon/WebMD has established first-class partnerships across the healthcare, technology and media industries that will play a critical role in fulfilling the company's vision of connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry," said Fili-Krushel. "The company is in a unique position to transform the healthcare arena, and my experience in developing programming, delivering information to the consumer marketplace and in growing integrated media companies will help accelerate Healtheon/WebMD's position."
Most recently, Fili-Krushel was president of Walt Disney Co.'s ABC TV network, where her responsibilities included oversight of ABC News, ABC Entertainment Television Group, and ABC Daytime, broadcast operations, marketing, engineering, television network sales, and affiliate relations.
Prior to being named president of the ABC Television Network, Fili-Krushel served as president of ABC Daytime and was instrumental with making the network No. 1 in the women-under-50 demographic and is credited with the successful launch of the talk show, "The View." Her career also includes posts as group vice president and senior vice president of programming of Lifetime Television, part of the Hearst/ABC-Viacom Entertainment Services, and she currently is a member of the board of directors. In addition, she is a member of the National Task Force on Teen Pregnancy Prevention. She also held several executive management and director-level positions at Home Box Office, Inc.
About Healtheon/WebMD
Healtheon/WebMD is the first end-to-end Internet healthcare company connecting physicians and consumers to the entire healthcare industry. Healtheon/WebMD is using the Internet to facilitate a new system for the delivery of healthcare, resulting in a single, secure environment for all communications and transactions that will enable a more efficient and cost effective healthcare system. With corporate headquarters in Atlanta and technology headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company was formed in November 1999 as a result of the merger of Healtheon Corporation, WebMD Inc., MEDE America and Medcast. For more information visit webmd.com .
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