About us

Anne Tate

Anne has over 25 years’ experience in the laboratory management and healthcare consulting business. She is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of managing laboratory information. Anne is fueled by her passion for laboratory informatics and software tools that enable the laboratory to achieve operational excellence. She has spanned the continuum of healthcare roles from laboratory management to software and clinical decision rule development to sales and marketing leadership for various IT product lines. Anne offers a unique blend of clinical and IT knowledge to enhance laboratory efficiency and performance. She can help you develop a strategy to drive better business decisions using healthcare and laboratory informatics.

Anne. is very active professionally as Secretary for the Political Action Committee for the American Society for Clinical Laboratory (ASCLS), the pre-eminent laboratory professional organization representing over 9000 laboratory professionals nationwide. Anne is also a board member of the ASCLS Montana chapter as President-Elect for 2024-2025.

Education

University of Cincinnati, Masters of Health Informatics (MHI)

University of Colorado, Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

Medical Technologist (ASCP), Specialist in Chemistry (SC)

Deb Hewett-Smith

Deb is a strategic and innovative leader with proven success driving results and empowering teams in the highly competitive healthcare IT and medical device industry sectors. She is a strategic contributor to the accelerated growth of start-up, early stage businesses and large organization initiatives. With over 25 years’ experience, Deb is effective at building programs that connect the dots between customer value and business growth / retention. She offers a broad range of services across marketing, business development, product management, sales operations, vendor relationship management, and program management. Whether your customer is your boss, or a healthcare organization, Deb can help you build and execute the plan that gets your initiatives moving.

Education

University of Virginia

Performance

1999 – President’s Award, Marketing ‘MVP’, Sunquest Information Systems

2007 – First Light Award, new product launch, Sysmex America, Inc.

2013 & 2014 – Signature Performance Award, Marketing ‘MVP’, Sysmex America, Inc.