J.D. Kleinke is a medical economist, health information technology executive, and the founder and President of HSN, a medical software development company headquartered in Colorado. During the 1990s, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development for HCIA Inc., helping grow the company from a start-up hospital data analysis firm into a pioneering, publicly-traded provider of health care information systems and products. Before joining HCIA, Kleinke was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he developed and managed the nation's first provider-based managed mental health care system. Kleinke's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, JAMA, Barron's, Health Affairs, the British Medical Journal, Modern Healthcare and numerous other publications.