Gerry Hayden & Jeff Doster Join Healthstream

  Nashville, Tennessee– The Buffkin Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Gerry Hayden, to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Jeff Doster, to the position of Chief Technology Officer with Healthstream, Inc. based out of Nashville, TN.

Hayden, who was a HealthStream director since 2006 and a former CFO of MedAvant Healthcare Solutions, another healthcare IT venture. He also has held the top financial spot at Private Business (now Goldleaf Financial Solutions), Covation and WebMD a unit of Envoy.

Doster, comes from The Altus Group, where he was a Partner of an Independent Consulting firm specializing in Information Technology, Business Operations and Planning, and Process Engineering.  Before The Altus Group, Jeff was SVP Information Technology at Shop at Home Network and Newroads, Inc.    

About Healthstream

HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM) provides learning and research solutions to meet the training, information, and education needs of the healthcare industry. Our internet-based learning products are used by healthcare organizations to meet a broad range of their training and assessment needs, while our research products provide our customers information about patients’ experiences, workforce challenges, physician relations, and community perceptions of their services. HealthStream’s customers are primarily healthcare organizations and include over 2,200 healthcare organizations (predominately acute-care facilities) throughout the United States. We also provide services to and on behalf of over 150 medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

About The Buffkin Group

The Buffkin Group is a national executive search and consulting firm. Services include:  Executive Search, Research and Sourcing, Executive Coaching and Strategic Consulting.   There are five industry verticals: Healthcare, Marketing Services, Media/Publishing, Technology and General Management.  Successful search and consulting assignments have been completed in privately-held and publicly-traded companies at the board, executive and senior levels.