Andrew Shearer

Andrew is in charge of Care Thread’s technology, delivering both the vision and deployment of Care Thread’s suite of solutions and its roadmap. He has nearly 20 years of healthcare IT software development experience for hospitals and other enterprise systems. During his tenure at Lifespan, the largest hospital system in Rhode Island, Andrew developed clinical applications used by thousands of healthcare providers, and gained extensive experience integrating clinical systems. He designed and implemented a popular patient hand-off tool that is still used by Brown Medical School physicians since its roll-out in 2004. He was also responsible for an electronic Continuity of Care system that was used for all inpatient discharges system-wide between 2005 and 2010. Before co-founding Care Thread, Andrew also served as technical lead at several other startups.