Press Release

Healthwise Announces Elizabeth Beem as Chief Financial Officer

BOISE, ID, February 26, 2018—Healthwise, a leader in evidence-based health education, technology and services, announced that Elizabeth Beem will assume the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Beem joined Healthwise in 2016 and previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance.

Before joining Healthwise, Elizabeth spent 17 years at Hewlett-Packard, where she held several leadership roles in finance, business planning and analytics, and business operations. Beem previously worked as the assistant controller for Smith Sport Optics and an accounting auditor for Arthur Andersen.

As CFO, Beem will lead Healthwise’s finance, accounting, and treasury operations.

“Elizabeth focuses on the value we provide to our health care provider and health plan clients,” said Healthwise CEO Bob Kyte. “She has a wealth of finance operations knowledge and expertise and will be a tremendous asset to Healthwise in this role.”

Beem commented, “I am delighted to work with the Healthwise leadership team to help build on the company’s opportunities to achieve meaningful long-term results for our clients while staying committed to our mission to help people make better health decisions.”

Beem holds an M.B.A. from Boise State University and has a B.A. in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame.

About Healthwise

Healthwise is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. People have turned to Healthwise information more than 2 billion times to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the care they need, and say “no” to the care they don’t need. Healthwise partners with hospitals, electronic medical record (EMR) providers, health plans, care management companies, and health websites to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to the people they serve. www.healthwise.org. 1.800.706.9646