Meet Our Leadership Team
David Lareau
President and Chief Executive Officer
As President and CEO, David Lareau stewards Medicomp Systems’ pioneering vision while driving its next chapter of healthcare innovation. With over 20 years of leadership in healthcare IT, he holds a longstanding passion for leveraging technology to empower clinicians and improve care.
Following founder Peter Goltra’s groundbreaking work to diagnostically connect healthcare data, Lareau has modernized Medicomp’s core technology to keep pace with today’s evolving industry and expanded the company’s impact into global markets. Under his leadership, Medicomp Systems has scaled its evidence-based clinical AI to power dynamic, multi-modal clinical workflows, and support nursing, home care and hospice, value-based care, and telehealth. Medicomp’s Quippe solutions have increased clinician productivity by up to 50% and reduced costs for both health tech vendors and healthcare organizations.
Committed to improving data usability, Lareau believes that enabling clinicians to find what they need, when and how they need it, for any patient problem or presentation, can transform patient care.
Jay Anders, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Jay Anders serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Medicomp Systems, where he plays a pivotal role in product development and acts as a liaison to the healthcare community. He champions the use of technology to empower clinicians, rather than hinder them.
Dr. Anders leads Medicomp’s knowledge base team and clinical advisory board, ensuring that product development aligns with user needs to enhance usability. He hosts the award-winning HealthcareNOW Radio podcast, “Tell Me Where IT Hurts,” discussing critical issues such as physician burnout, EHR usability, healthcare interoperability, and the impact of technology on healthcare with industry experts.
Before joining Medicomp, Dr. Anders was the Chief Medical Officer at McKesson Business Performance Services, overseeing the development of clinical information systems and leading the integration of Medicomp’s Quippe Physician Documentation into an EHR.
Dr. Anders began his medical career in a large multi-specialty practice, confronting the inefficiencies of health IT and clinician burnout. After 16 years in internal medicine, as a physician, department chair, clinic president, and medical director, he left private practice to focus on leveraging technology to improve patient care and mitigate physician burnout.
Dan Gainer
Chief Technology Officer
Dan Gainer guides technology strategy as CTO of Medicomp Systems, combining 20 years of experience in health IT with a passion for using technology to improve people’s lives. In this role, Gainer champions the vision that innovative technology can make a difference for both providers and patients. His leadership transformed Medicomp’s products for modern technology, and introduced an intelligent, interactive clinical workspace for the point care with the launch of Quippe. Gainer holds patents for intelligent prompting of protocols and filtering medical information.
Before joining Medicomp, Gainer co-founded a company providing accounting compliance software for federal contractors. Outside of Medicomp, Gainer serves as board chair of a regional behavioral health system.
James Aita
Director of Strategy and Business Development
James Aita is the Director of Strategy and Business Development for North America. Aita brings over 20 years of experience as a strategist, product manager and business analyst to this leadership position. Aita has dedicated his career to solving problems within the healthcare ecosystem. Most recently, he was the Head of Healthcare Solutions at Idea Couture in Toronto where he drove the creation of programs, services and technologies that help to improve patient care while also reducing costs.
Prior to his position at Idea Couture, Aita spent four years in a senior product management role at Medicomp developing the company’s Quippe modules, and expanding their footprint in the United States and globally. He has also led product management and operations for healthcare technology firms in the United States and Canada, contributing to awards for both product and customer satisfaction. Aita guest lectures on emerging technologies in healthcare for a business school in his free time, and produces Medicomp’s award-winning podcast “Tell Me Where IT Hurts” alongside host and Medicomp CMO, Dr. Jay Anders.
Karen Chapman
Director of Product
As Director of Product for Medicomp Systems, Chapman overseas the design, development, and implementation of all Quippe modules. Committed to providing a useable, efficient product to healthcare workers across the globe, she collaborates across teams to optimize clinical workflows and drive value. Chapman works closely with current and prospective customers to increase adoption of Quippe as well as gather intel on industry needs to shape future product development.
Hailing from the education world, Chapman has spent over 20 years in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Medicomp in 2013, she led multiple teams and initiatives at Northrop Grumman and Integic Corporation for the training and implementation of the DoD’s EHR, AHLTA.