SoftServe’s Eugene Borukhovich Joins Rockstart Accelerator Program to Prepare Health Startups for Global Scaling

Amsterdam, 15 Jun 2015

SoftServe’s Healthcare expert Eugene Borukhovich joins the group of mentors of a key healthcare startup accelerator in the Netherlands.

SoftServe announced that healthcare expert Eugene Borukhovich has joined the group of mentors of Rockstart Digital Health Accelerator Program, a 180-days intensive startup accelerator program focused on digital health.

The aim of the Rockstart accelerator is to build, validate and scale digital health startups, as well as help them better understand product design, market fit and business models by enabling the startups to directly work with patients, professionals and other stakeholders. As a mentor Eugene will provide intensive individual mentoring and strategy sessions during the core program.

“I’m excited to have an opportunity to join the group of mentors of the Rockstart Accelerator and share my knowledge and experience with those who are passionate about making a sustainable impact on people’s health. I hope my mentoring and strategy sessions within the program will be helpful in the development of connected and the most accessible digital health ecosystem in the world.” said Eugene Borukhovich, SoftServe’s VP Healthcare, European Markets.

"As Rockstart, we are extremely happy to welcome Eugene as one of our key mentors. Eugene has extensive and in-depth knowledge of the healthcare systems and technologies in Europe and the US. We are very pleased that the startups in our program will be able to leverage Eugene's wide knowledge of health innovation." Maarten den Braber, Program Director Rockstart Accelerator Digital Health.

About Eugene Borukhovich
Eugene Borukhovich is an international expert on healthcare information technology innovation. He is also a member of HIMSS EU Industry Advisory Committee, convened in September 2014 to discuss and collaborate on key Healthcare IT topics. Eugene is a frequent speaker at various healthcare conferences and events, including HxRefactored, Health 2.0, Doctors 2.0 & You, etc. Eugene’s articles and blogs have been published in numerous healthcare resources including SoftServe United, HITECH Answers, mHealth News, CTO vision, MEDCITY News,EE Times, and many more. You can find Eugene on Twitter at @HealthEugene.

SoftServe’s Solutions Architect Wins Microsoft’s “Learning at Work Week” Competition

June 03, 2015

SoftServe’s Vadym Fedorov a winner in the annual Microsoft Competition, run by the Campaign for Learning

SoftServe today announced that the article “Learn, Learn and Once Again, Learn!” by Solutions Architect, Vadym Fedorov, won Microsoft’s annual “Learning at Work Week” competition. The theme for this competition, run by the Campaign for Learning, was “Shaping Our Future”, and focused on the vital role of learning and development in building resilient, forward-thinking and creative workplaces.

In his article Vadym discusses the necessity for continual learning for IT-related professionals to gain expertise in the latest technologies, as well as gain hands-on experience. He provided a detailed 5-step plan for keeping IT knowledge up to date and shared useful online learning resources, social networks, web 2.0, communities, and forums for checking the real-life value of this knowledge.

Vadym Fedorov has 12-years’ experience in enterprise application development, as well as 2-years’ experience in Cloud and operations optimization. He is not only a regular blogger on the SoftServe United blog, but also he has numerous articles published in such IT resources as Database, Microsoft TechNet, Computer Technology Review, etc.

“Knowledge acquisition is an important part of every IT expert`s professional development, and I was happy to participate in Microsoft`s Campaign for Learning. At SoftServe, we have access to many internal and on-demand trainings by SoftServe’s corporate IT University, and I was happy to share all the knowledge that I have acquired, with Microsoft’s blog readers.” said Vadym Fedorov, Solutions Architect, SoftServe.