People news: Dario, Quality Biomedical

New York-based DarioHealth Corp. has appointed veteran health plan executive Dennis A. Matheis to its board of directors. Matheis currently serves as president of Optima Health, a division of Sentara Healthcare, which has more than 850,000 members and a network of more than 26,000 providers. "His insights and guidance will prove invaluable as we continue our transition to a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) enterprise serving people suffering from chronic diseases through direct relationships with health plans, large employers and benefits administrators,” said Erez Raphael, Dario's CEO. “With the addition of Dennis, I believe we now have the leadership team and Board to fully support our vision for Dario." Prior to joining Optima Health, Matheis spent 13 years at Anthem, Inc., including as president of Anthem's Central Region and Exchanges, encompassing six states and representing $12 billion in annual revenue. He previously served in senior leadership roles at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri, CIGNA Healthcare and Humana Health Plan, as well as Advocate Health Care in Chicago…Boulder, Colo.-based Quality Biomedical has named Ken Probst manager, corporate quality assurance. Probst is a Six-Sigma Black Belt certified quality expert who has spent his career in the high tech industry delivering quality management systems for services operations involving smartphones, laptops, set-top boxes and other mission-critical equipment. He has previously worked at NCR, Seagate Technology, Hewlett Packard, Teleplan and Flextronics.