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Mr. Gorup is the founder and senior vice president, chief of innovation at Cerner. Mr. Gorup is responsible for Cerner’s expansion into new markets with analytics solutions for the life sciences industry, biosurveillance technology and the Cerner CareAware® medical devices. Mr. Gorup also is responsible for knowledge and discovery. Knowledge and discovery is a hub for healthcare innovation and research within Cerner, responsible for technology that enables knowledge-driven care through Cerner Millennium® and industry-leading solutions that advance critical care outcomes.
As one of Cerner’s co-founders, Mr. Gorup played a critical role in the company’s formative years. Among other accomplishments, he served as one of the key members of the PathNet development team, the first widely available commercial solution for Cerner. In 1987, Mr. Gorup left Cerner to pursue new challenges in the undeveloped area of electronic broadcast monitoring systems. He founded Broadcast Data Systems with two partners and built BDS into an industry leader. Today, BDS operates the largest commercial electronic monitoring system in the world, monitoring more than 1,100 radio stations and 600 television stations in the United States and Canada.
Mr. Gorup returned to Cerner in 1999 as vice president of application data services. He launched Cerner into the data services business, managing technical and operational infrastructures for clients. The high demand for these data services and significant client benefit opportunities, especially among community hospitals, led Cerner to construct a new data center at its main campus and a state-of-the-art, off-site data center in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Under the umbrella of CernerWorks, client data services remain one of Cerner’s most profitable businesses. Mr. Gorup holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. | 