AGNITY Healthcare launched to improve mobile healthcare solutions

AGNITY, Inc., a leading provider of applications, solutions and services to mobile and fixed line service providers and enterprises, announced today that the company has launched AGNITY Healthcare, a new division focused on applications and services that harness the power of mobility and the Internet to improve access to and enhance the quality of healthcare.

Eighty percent of Americans in a recent Harris Poll (November 2009) expressed interest in mobile healthcare services delivered from smart phones, wearable bio-sensors and disease monitoring devices. And according to DataMonitor, spending on tele-health hardware, software and other related services will nearly triple from the current $2.4 billion to $6.1 billion in 2012.

As the United States and other nations struggle to control rising healthcare costs, mobile healthcare promises to deliver greater efficiency in collaboration and information sharing among doctors, nurses and hospital administrators. Integrating mobile health applications into current hospital and care provider systems will be a critical success factor in the move to reform healthcare and provide greater access to care at lower cost.

Said Ken Epps, President of AGNITY Healthcare, “AGNITY has helped Tier-1 telecommunication providers develop, deploy and manage both voice and data and multimedia services, as well as sophisticated and complex converged communications services. That same knowledge and experience will enable AGNITY Healthcare to deliver reliable and scalable solutions to doctors, hospitals, patients and insurance companies as they seek to deploy communications and mobile healthcare solutions.”

AGNITY Healthcare also named healthcare industry veteran Shashi Tripathi to the position of vice president of product management. Tripathi has broad healthcare experience in developing and launching product solutions in EMR, RIS/PACS, ERP, RCM (revenue cycle management), PMS (practice management system), Health BI, portals (physician & patient) and HL7/DICOM.

Prior to joining AGNITY Healthcare, Tripathi was executive vice president with icuro, where he was responsible for product management, client relationship and sales & marketing for the healthcare products and services. He founded iMenuTech and served as president and chief executive officer. He has also worked in various management capacities with companies such as St. Jude Medical, Medtronic, IDEXX Laboratories, Pfizer, Answerthink Consulting and i2 Technologies and has consulted with healthcare providers such as Kaiser Permanente, Geisinger, Sentara and Alaska Heart. Shashi is a graduate in mechanical engineering and holds a Master’s Degree in industrial engineering & operations research from IIT Bombay, India. Tripathi is an active member of HIMSS.

AGNITY Healthcare will launch its APTUS™ product solutions for healthcare in the coming months. The AGNITY APTUS product solutions will include mobile healthcare applications for physicians, nurses, payers as well as patients. The APTUS product applications will be designed to work together in a connected care framework or as standalone solutions. The applications will focus on increasing productivity, improving patient interaction, satisfaction and advancing reach by extending the point-of-care to the patient – where they reside or currently may be. As hospitals move to adopt standards around electronic medical records (EMR), the APTUS suite will help health organizations utilize these records securely across networks and devices.

Said Epps, “AGNITY Healthcare is very fortunate to have someone as highly experienced in this industry as Shashi to lead the vision and product direction for this division. We are very committed to the growth and development of AGNITY Healthcare and with Shashi’s extensive expertise in healthcare leading the way; we have the foundation for success.”

“There is no doubt that our nation’s healthcare system is struggling, however technology can solve much of these issues. The promise of AGNITY Healthcare is to deliver solutions that improve access to and enhance the quality of care, making mobile healthcare more personal again. This is a vision that I also dearly share and look forward to working with the AGNITY Healthcare team to bring these solutions to the healthcare market,” added Tripathi.