Sandeep Kapoor co-founded HealthTech Solutions in 2011, following a 25-year career working with state and federal agencies – first as a software developer, then assuming leadership roles. Most recently, he served at the chief technology officer (CTO) for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. While working in this leadership role, Sandeep was responsible for technology issues for several human services programs such as Medicaid and CHIP, public health, services to special needs populations, the Affordable Care Act Marketplace (formerly known as Kynect), SNAP, TANF, child support, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and Health Information Exchange (HIE). 

Sandeep was an early state leader in the national effort to implement program requirements for the EHR Incentive Program. He developed Kentucky’s State Level Repository (SLR) and HIE architecture. He has served as a technical expert for a number of national organizations such as the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). 

Sandeep continues to work with states across the country and is recognized as a thoughtful, innovative partner for state and federal government technology implementation and maintenance. With his background as a technologist and also as a state leader, he brings a unique perspective to the interdependencies of technology, operations, and policymaking. 

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Frank Lassiter co-founded HealthTech Solutions in 2011, following 30 years of experience in public and private sector leadership roles. Most recently, he was the executive director of Kentucky’s Office of Administrative Technology Services (OATS) in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS). 

In his role with OATS, Frank had management and leadership responsibilities for more than 200 state employees as well as the technology leaders. Operationally, Frank oversaw the development, procurement, and execution of contracts for all CHFS technology projects. Additionally, he was responsible for the financial management and performance of contracted terms. This included over 60 mission-critical systems and more than 200 applications to support human services programs such as Medicaid and CHIP, public health, services to special needs populations, the Affordable Care Act Marketplace (formerly known as Kynect), SNAP, TANF, child support, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and Health Information Exchange (HIE). In fact, he oversaw Kentucky’s child support modernization effort, helping Kentucky become a national leader for states wishing to transition to an updated child support system. 

Throughout his career, Frank has served in a number of other executive-level roles in state agencies and private sector enterprise. His experience as an innovative collaborator, supported by his government operations experience, has decisively positioned HealthTech Solutions for continued growth through strong execution of business fundamentals, clear planning, and values focused on continued partnership with our clients. This experience has attracted a team of experts in government services and technology. 

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Mike Smith has more than 25 years of experience providing technology solutions and end-user support. He was an early employee at HealthTech Solutions and has been critical to client engagements that involve post-implementation training and user support. He loves working with users to facilitate the most efficient use of our applications. Mike also enjoys jumping in on new projects and supporting his colleagues when they need help. 

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Major Carla Raisler of the Kentucky National Guard serves concurrently as HealthTech Solutions’ Information Security Officer and team chief of the Defensive Cyber Operations Element for the Kentucky National Guard. Carla has over two decades of experience with enterprise-level systems. She is an expert in privacy and security laws and policy, particularly the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and provides insight into most of our projects since protecting sensitive data is our primary concern. 

Carla loves the cohesive, family-like relationships she has built with her HealthTech Solutions colleagues. “I’m always waiting for a new position to open up that I think a friend or former colleague might be the right fit for. I want them to experience what it’s like to work for an organization that is innovative and encourages personal and professional growth.” 

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Janet Lile is key to HealthTech Solutions’ internal operations. She has over 40 years of experience in telecommunications and all phases of enterprise IT infrastructure development, implementation, and assessment. While with state government in Kentucky, Janet held a number of management roles, as well as undertaking special initiatives for the governor. She has extensive experience with project portfolio management and project management office activities. 

Janet specializes in enterprise IT software, predictive data analytics, cloud platforms, and infrastructure investments. Due to her experience managing state IT procurements, she brings a careful eye to procurement response work, ensuring that we deliver high-quality, strategic solutions on time and within budget. “I know how it is to be on the client side of things, especially government’s perspective, and I want to make sure we communicate our dedication to delivering high-quality services and solutions.” 

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After working with co-founder Sandeep Kapoor on Kentucky’s provider registry and payment system, known as the State Level Registry (SLR), Aparna Kumar was happy to continue this work at HealthTech Solutions. Her favorite part of working with our team is that she has the freedom to design the right solution with the best technology, rather than simply implementing a solution that someone else designed. 

Aparna is comfortable doing development in an agile, iterative approach as well as with waterfall-style Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methods. She has experience with .NET, LINQ Entity framework, MVC, WCF and web services, SSIS, SSRS, SQL server, Oracle, JavaScript, JScript, and PHP. 

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