FierceHealthcare welcomes new editor: Dina Overland

We're pleased to welcome Dina Overland into the fold as new editor of FierceHealthPayer. Dina has a distinguished career as a healthcare journalist, including as a reporter and editor at Thompson Publishing Group, Inc., where she specialized in medical privacy issues and HIPAA. Dina has also covered the healthcare beat for SmartBrief and served as an editor of the Medicare Drug Reimbursement Guide. Welcome aboard, Dina!

Dina assumes the helm at FierceHealthPayer during a banner year for Fierce's healthcare publications. Our eight healthcare newsletters now reach 175,000 email subscribers. And we're just getting started! We'll continue expanding our readership in 2011 by providing you even more breaking news, exclusive interviews and need-to-know industry information. We look forward to serving you.

In the meantime, if you've got a comment, suggestion or concern, please feel free to contact me personally.

Thanks and best wishes for a terrific final quarter of 2010!

Wendy Johnson, publisher