With the results of a recent Harris Poll indicating that 80 percent of Americans want mobile healthcare services delivered from smart phones, wearable bio-sensors and disease monitoring devices—and research from DataMonitor pegging telehealth spending projections at $6.1 billion in 2012—technology vendors are flocking to the mobile health IT space.

Most recently, AGNITY, Inc., launched a new division—AGNITY Healthcare—to focus on applications and services that promise to harness the power of mobility and the Internet to improve access to and enhance the quality of healthcare.
 
Apparently, the Fremont, Calif.-based solutions provider to mobile and fixed line service providers and enterprises is so set on mHealth as the solution to rising healthcare costs in the U.S. and abroad, it felt the best plan of attack was through a dedicated, stand-alone division.
 
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.
 
Ken Epps, president of AGNITY Healthcare, says the new division will leverage the same knowledge and expertise when delivering scalable solutions to doctors, hospitals, patients and insurance companies as they seek to deploy communications and mobile healthcare solutions.
 
To help with that transition, the new division has named healthcare industry veteran Shashi Tripathi to the role of vice president, product management. Tripathi brings 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.