Critical Health is a spin-off of Critical Software encompassing all the healthcare activities that were being developed since 2006. Critical Software is a successful IT services company specialized in real-time systems for defense, aerospace and telecommunications with solid reputation for software reliability (CMMI-3, ISO9001, Spice). The new company represents a strong commitment from Critical Software to all its customers and partners in the Healthcare sector.
Critical Health's is an approved Manufacturer of Medical Devices according to EC Directive 93/42/EEC Annex II, Article 3. The company's Quality Management System was certified by TÜV Rheinland according to EN ISO 13485:2003 + AC:2007 and EN ISO 9001:2008
Critical Health was created to improve the Quality of Life and to reduce the total Healthcare Spending. It aims to achieve this vision by providing critical health information to everyone through the marketing of innovative and accessible technological products.
The company's objective, to build a valuable global business of Health Information Technology Products, is based upon the following three vectors:
Ricardo holds the Diploma in economics from the London School of Economics, England, a MSc in economics from the University of Illinois, USA and a MSc in management from the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University, USA. Ricardo is the Non executive Chairman and a shareholder of TEMA - a Portuguese Home Furniture Manufacturer. Previous to this appointment, Ricardo was a shareholder and an Executive Director of HOSPOR - a leading private Portuguese Healthcare Services provider. Ricardo got involved in this business in 2003 together with 3i Group who bought a 40% equity stake in the company. This investment was sold to another Healthcare Group at the end of 2005. Before these entrepreneurial ventures Ricardo led 3i's practice in Portugal, was an executive director of the Vista Alegre Atlantis group and worked as a consultant at Mckinsey & Company in Lisbon.
João Diogo holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Coimbra. Since 2006 that he has been leading the Healthcare vertical at Critical Software. His main activities consisted on assessing new opportunities, establishing and maintaining partnerships (including in health-related networks as XHMS) and managing products (eg. Retmarker). During this period, where João Diogo was a member of the Business Development team, he has also worked as Tendering Manager (holds a certification from the Association of Proposal Management Professionals). In 2002 João Diogo joined Critical Software as a Project and Product Manager for solutions in the domain of EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and Consultancy in Software Development Methodologies and Software Quality Assurance. Before joining Critical, João Diogo worked in an e-Commerce company from Salvador Caetano group.
Gregory Stern holds a degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University in Washington DC. Previous to joining Critical, Gregory worked for GE Healthcare as a Lead Program Integrator & Software Architect and for Siemens Healthcare in Portugal as the Professional Services Manager. During his five years at GE, Gregory lead engineering teams to create a FDA regulated class 2 surgical navigation medical device. At Siemens, Gregory managed a team that customizes, integrates, installs, trains and supports the Siemens flagship Electronic Patient Record (EPR) application in Portugal. Before GE & Siemens, Gregory was a Technical Product Manager and Software Engineer at Trolltech AS and lived one year in Norway and Australia, respectively. Before Trolltech, Gregory built software applications for the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC.
Joana Feijó holds a degree in Microbiology from the Portuguese Catholic University, a Post-graduation in Basic and Molecular Biology and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute from the Oporto University. Previous to joining Critical Health, Joana worked for ALERT Life Sciences Computing, S.A. as Director of Clinical Content Department and Functional Analysis Department. During his 3 years at ALERT, Joana was responsible for national and international teams (40 people) regarding software specifications and Clinical Content definition for the clinical applications. She was also responsible for the medical consultant group (approximately 20 physicians in different specialties). Before ALERT Joana was an Associate Professor lecturing Biochemistry, Biophysics and Microbiology.
Gonçalo holds a degree in electrical engineering and a Phd in Computer science from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Gonçalo was a co-founder in mid 1998 of Critical Software SA., when he won the best business plan award from the National Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE). He was the responsible for launching and consolidating two Company Business Units - Telecommunications and Networking and Enterprise Solutions – assuming responsibilities of project and technical management of some of the most important projects there carried on, and also of business development and team management. As of the beginning of 2005 Gonçalo Quadros is the Chief Executive Officer of Critical Software and Chairman of the Board, maintaining his responsibilities in the business development field.
Before joining Critical Software, Gonçalo worked in industry for several years, including the utilities sector (EDP) and the Pulp&Paper industry (Soporcel). In his academic life, Gonçalo taught at University of Aveiro and University of Coimbra (mathematics, computer and data communication subjects), has been author of more than 40 papers in the subject of QoS and networking and has been reviewer for several conferences and magazines. He got his Phd in "Quality of Service for network edge devices".
Gonçalo holds a "Ordem do Mérito Oficial" awarded by the President of the Republic of Portugal.
Pedro has been in Critical since 2001, where he was Senior Finance Officer. Beginning of 2005, he became the CFO for Critical Software and then Critical Links. At the moment he is CFO of the Group’s Holding company.
Before joining Critical, he was for one year the CFO on a real-estate holding with nine companies, which held investments across Portugal and Brazil. During this period he raised project finance operations and led negotiations with large hotel chains such as Marriott.
On 2000 he was briefly involved as CFO of a holding working mainly on trading of graphic arts machinery (the second largest vendor in Portugal), where he was in charge of settling representation deals with factories around Europe.
At the beginning of his career (from 1995 to 1999) he worked on a regional Association, where he made his internship and became CFO on 1997.
Pedro holds a bachelor degree in Corporate Management from the Economics College in University of Coimbra.
As a member of the Board of Directors, Diamantino Costa (Dino) brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in both business and software development. He is the co-founder and Executive Vice-President of Critical Software SA and serves on the Board of its subsidiary in the UK, Critical Software Technologies Limited. Prior to this appointment he served as the head of Business Development for Aeronautics, Space, Defense and Transport markets at Critical Software, supervising European business operations as well managing and expanding the global customer base of two business units: world space agencies (NASA, ESA and JAXA) and leading prime contractors (Thales Alenia Space, EADS Astrium, etc). As a researcher at the Dependable Systems Group at the University of Coimbra he authored and presented over 20 papers and provided material for books on computer software dependability.
Dino holds a BSc and an MSc in Informatics Engineering and Computer Systems Architecture from the University Of Coimbra, Portugal and has been a member of IEEE since 1998.
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