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April 29, 2011

Healthcare Technology and News: iMetrikus Changes Name to Numera but Not Functions


iMetrikus, a provider of telehealth solutions, today announced it has changed the company name to Numera, but it will continue to offer software systems for care management and wellness programs to address large, underserved patient populations.  

The new corporate brand reflects the company's focus on developing methods of collecting objective patient health and biometric data and integrating this into popular electronic medical records (EMR), care management, and personal health records (PHR). To drive this focus, the company has added new senior management.

Using Numera|NET, qualified clinical workers can perform advanced analysis, identify health and disease trends and proactively engage with patients to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and recognize improved health outcomes.

Studies confirm that health goals are more effectively reached when progress or setbacks can be quantified and these numbers can be accessed by healthcare administrators. But many solutions are too expensive to broadly deploy. Numera provides an FDA-cleared, platform-independent gateway that enables validated and secure transmission of biometric information from a library of consumer monitoring devices to virtually any health record or care management system.

In addition to the upcoming commercial launch of its Numera|NET gateway applications for smartphones, Numera will be rolling out additional products over the coming months that further support the company's platform-independent positioning and broad patient population scalability.

To spearhead the Numera, Tim Smokoff, has been appointed chief executive officer.  From 1998 to 2011, Smokoff worked at Microsoft, most recently as general manager of Microsoft's World Wide Health Industry Solutions Group. Smokoff has also successfully led a number of companies, including several start-ups, in the health information systems and medical device markets.

Two additional executives have been named to Numera's senior management team.  Mark Oswald joins as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.  Previously he was the vice president of NCR’s Common Software platform. Before that, he was chief architect at Revolution Health, having been recruited to Revolution after eight years at Microsoft, where he was one of the first members of Microsoft's healthcare team.  

Numera also named Tony Titus to the position of vice president, sales, business development and marketing.  Most recently, Titus was vice president of marketing and services at Cardiac Science Corporation.  Prior to Cardiac Science, he served as vice president,  business development at Masimo, a biometric sensor company, and as director, business development and strategy at Medtronic. 


Deborah DiSesa Hirsch is an award-winning health and technology writer who has worked for newspapers, magazines and IBM in her 20-year career. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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