R. Dennis Bowers, Ph.D.
Fidelity National Medical Solutions, Inc. -President and CEO

OVERVIEW

R. Dennis Bowers, Ph.D. is the founder and has served as the Company's President and CEO since its inception.  Dr. Bowers brings almost 40 years of senior healthcare management experience to the Company, including more than 20 years developing and managing regional, national and international healthcare networks on both the private and governmental side of the business.  During his career to date, Dr. Bowers has served in the Nixon White House and as a healthcare consultant to four U.S. presidents, the World Health organization, the governments of 12 countries and 5 state governments.  Over the course of the last 30 years he has founded five companies, three of which became publicly traded and another of which is in the process now of going public..

Dr. Bowers' managerial career in the healthcare industry began in 1970.  Dr. Bowers founded the Medford, Massachusetts mental health and regional drug treatment center, Adolescent Counseling in Development while teaching at Boston University.  This work evolved in the development of new treatment modalities for seriously addicted adolescents and became a treatment model for the State of Massachusetts.  Partially due to the widespread press of these successes, he was asked to join the new White House SAODAP Task Force team and became one of the principle architects of the first War on Drugs.  He was also named as the Director of the National Drug Abuse Training Center, which was the lead Federal Development Center for a national network of 14 other training centers, where he was in charge of training international diplomats, state and federal lawmakers, law enforcement personnel, educators and treatment professionals in various aspects of drug abuse, alcoholism, state, federal and international treatment and drug intervention programs.

In 1973, Dr. Bowers was invited by the State of Iowa to head up a state-wide network of treatment centers, medical clinics, hospital detoxification centers, and public education services serving 32 cities and communities in Iowa.  He founded ADAPT, Inc. which grew to become one of the largest drug and alcohol treatment networks in the U.S.  During that period Dr. Bowers also served as a consultant to then Governor Robert Ray and sat on the state licensing board.

In 1976 Dr. Bowers was asked by the federal government to design and manage a national domestic intelligence network co-sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department of Education.  This mammoth undertaking required the organization of hospitals, clinics, medical examiners and undercover agents in 43 cities, to analyze and report every drug and alcohol abuse case to a national office, and the management of a huge national data base and epidemiological forecasting system which tracked and predicted new smuggling routes, diversion patterns of legal drugs from manufacturers, and public health epidemics related to drug and alcohol abuse.  The resulting data base became one of the primary data bases from which the FDA formed national regulatory policy regarding the control of both pharmaceutical and illegally manufactured drugs.  Dr. Bowers was on call 24 hours a day to the White House, the DEA, and to the FDA, where he testified before many hearings.  In the course of this 6-year project, he became head of the Government Services Division of IMS America, Ltd. the government contractor managing the project.  While there, he started and managed the Washington D.C. office of IMS and the Hazardous Materials Research division of IMS.

At the request of the U.S. Government, and the World Health Organization, during the 1980s Dr. Bowers provided assistance to cabinet level executives in the following countries, designing new public health data bases and health care epidemiological forecasting systems for health, criminal justice and military agencies:

            World Health Organization                             Mexico                       

            Pan American Health Organization                 Ecuador

            United Nations                                                Chile

            Brazil                                                               Peru

            Argentina                                                        Colombia

           

In 1983, Dr. Bowers left IMS America and founded the Phoenix International Corporation, a provider of healthcare services, where he served as Chairman and President from 1983 to 1985.  Where there Dr. Bowers designed, financed, and developed the prototype for the National Center for Healthcare Information, a joint venture between Phoenix International, General Electric, and the American Hospital Association.  The center was designed to be the nation's first line of defense against new epidemics such as AIDS which are still in their formative stages of development, using sophisticated artificial intelligence applied to tens of millions of hospital and clinical patient information.  Following the development of the prototype, A.I. software and epidemiological forecasting models and with pending sales of about $50 million is research to the pharmaceutical industry and the U.S. Government, Dr, Bowers sold Phoenix in 1985 to the participating software firm, which then took the company public in 1985.

In 1986 Dr. Bowers founded Horizon Healthcare Group, a provider of healthcare network services.  At Horizon, he designed the prototype of a national network of health care providers which would evolve over the next 20 years into the nation's largest network of healthcare providers—forging more than 1,300,000 doctors, dentists, hospitals, clinics, home nursing, long-term care and other providers into a national network which reduces the cost of their professional services and products up to 50% to persons without insurance.  This model has proven so successful that it has been copied by many insurance and marketing companies.  In the last 10 years more than 13 million persons in the United States have accessed affordable medical care using these and other similar point of service networks.  At National Health and Safety Corporation, which Dr. Bowers founded in 1989, the original Horizon provider network first became a national  network of more than a half million providers available to the average consumer.  Through a joint venture with Lincoln Life Insurance Company, National Health and Safety expanded its broker network, trade named POWERx, to some 10,000 brokers nationwide.  Dr. Bowers took National Health and Safety public on the NASDAQ exchange in 1992, and then sold the company to ADS Media Group in 2000.

National Health Partners was then formed in 2001 and still another expansion of the original Horizon network took place between 2001-2005 at National Health Partners, where the discount at the point of service network, now called CARExpress, was doubled in size to more than a million providers, and the company began to take the product into retail giants such as CVS Pharmacy and to offer access of the network to union groups and combine it with insurance plans.

Dr. Bowers left National Health Partners in 2005 to form Fidelity National Medical Solutions, Inc, a new venture primarily focused on new macro solutions to the national medical crisis. In contrast to the old Horizon, POWERx and CARExpress networks of his former companies  Fidelity National focuses  primarily on high technology macro solutions to insurance claims processing, reduction of medical fraud and waste, and new insurance products which can provide low-cost insurance solutions to the almost 100 million Americans with either no health insurance or only very minimal coverage.  Whereas National Health Partners targeted individual consumers almost exclusively, target markets for Fidelity National are primarily large self-insured companies, city state and federal governments, unions, insurance companies, and third party administrators.  However, Fidelity National plans to utilize the CARExpress Network of National Health Partners to supplement its insurance product line.

Dr. Bowers hold a B.S. degree from the University of Kansas (1964), a Masters Degree from Drew University (1967) and Ph.D. degree from Boston University (1976). He has been an ordained clergyman of the United Methodist Church since 1967, which officially appointed him to be a change agent in the field of healthcare in 1969.     

 

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