Continuous monitoring company EarlySense has appointed John Dragovits senior vice president of strategic partnerships.

Dragovits will manage EarlySense’s domestic and international relationships with business partners including healthcare organizations, technology developers and integrators.

“Partner collaboration has played an important role in EarlySense’s growth and has been instrumental in helping us reach our goal of establishing contact-free continuous monitoring as a standard of care,” said Matt Johnson, EarlySense CEO. “We look forward to tapping into John’s expertise to strengthen current strategic partnerships and help bring in new relationships that will enable us to continue to elevate patient safety and care.”

Dragovits has more than 30 years’ experience as a healthcare and healthcare IT executive, including roles as vice president at Cerner Corporation and Allscripts. Dragovits is a former U.S. Navy officer and a CPA, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Rice University.