MEDITECH Founder A. Neil Pappalardo Dies at 83 as Company Names Interim Chair

Overview

• MEDITECH confirmed that A. Neil Pappalardo died on January 27 at age 83 and credited him with pioneering integrated electronic health records and co-authoring MUMPS.
• President and CEO Michelle O’Connor will serve as interim chair until the regularly scheduled April board meeting.
• The Pappalardo family said it will maintain MEDITECH’s private ownership with no anticipated operational or ownership changes.
• Under Pappalardo’s leadership, MEDITECH grew from a small Cambridge office to supporting more than 2,000 customers across 29 countries.
• He championed periodic software reinvention, most recently influencing the web- and cloud-native Expanse platform, and he was a notable philanthropist tied to MIT and the Pappalardo Fellowship; he is survived by his wife, four children, and 13 grandchildren.