James P. (Jim) Bradley was the founding CEO of RxHub LLC. RxHub (now Surescripts) is a healthcare technology company that developed a nationwide electronic information exchange connecting prescribers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers in order to permit the sharing of prescription, medication history, and benefit information between them. Before RxHub, Jim was a senior executive at McKesson Corporation. He was Chairman, CEO and founder of Abaton.com, Inc., a developer of web-based physician connectivity services and applications, which he sold to McKesson. Jim was also the Chief Information Officer of United HealthCare Corporation (UNH) and before that ran operations for the Northern half of the U.S for Aetna’s managed care plans as part of a joint venture with Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA).
He currently serves as a Director or Chairs the Boards of IcarioHealth, Cureatr, and Equiscript. Jim also Chairs the Board of the Healthcare Enterprises unit of Centene Corporation. Jim previously Chaired the Board of a number of companies including AbilityNetwork (sale to Summit Partners), Wellpartner (sale to CVS), Apixio (sale to Centene Corporation) and Diameter Health (sale to Availity). Other experience includes chairing the Board of Trustees of the University of Minnesota Medical Center, and an assignment in which he served as Northrop Grumman’s Program Director of their Nationwide Health Information Network initiative sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Jim’s not-for-profit Board service includes the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Jim chaired the NCQA Board from 2002 through 2005, and more recently was Chair of the Health Data Consortium where he worked closely with the U.S. Health and Human Services staff to promote the use of data to improve healthcare. He has also served on the Board of Research Foundation of the American Society of Health System Pharmacy. Jim was also the Co-Chair of WEDI, the Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange which was formed by then Secretary of HHS, Louis Sullivan, and which drafted the legislation which was to become known as HIPAA.
Jim has lectured on health policy and health information technology topics at Washington University, Harvard, Wharton, the University of California, the University of Hawaii, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota.
Jim received his MBA from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, and his BS and MS degrees in biostatistics and computer science from the University of Illinois.
