Posted on Fri, Sep 10, 2010
September 15-16 in Ellicott City MD
Baltimore, MD: Ankota will be exhibiting at the Maryland National Capital Homecare Association (MNCHA) Annual Meeting on September 15th and 16th. The conference will be held at The Hotel at Turf Valley in Ellicott City MD. The theme for the annual conference is “Planning our Bright Future”
In addition to exhibiting, Ankota CTO Ken Accardi will deliver a presentation entitled “Technology and Inbound Marketing Booster
Shot,” which will teach the participants how to get better results from their web sites and about new technologies they should be aware of. Ken will join other speaking faculty for the conference including Bill Dombi from the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC) and The Honorable John M. Colmers, secretary for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygeine.
“Although Ankota has a national focus, MNCHA is our hometown show,” explained Ankota CEO Will Hicklen. “We’re also excited that [Ankota CTO] Ken Accardi will be presenting. He’s so good at making technology simple to understand.”
MNCHA’s members include home nursing companies, private duty care companies and suppliers of home medical equipment (HME). In this tough economic year, Ankota is able to offer solutions that improves the efficiency of each of these business lines, as follows:
- For HME Delivery, Ankota offers planning and route optimization software that reduces planning time, miles drive, fuel consumption and paperwork, ultimately enabling an organization to take on more customers with the same staff.
- For Private Care, Ankota offers a comprehensive business management suite, all running on the web, the enables planning, real-time care-giver tracking with telephony, and billing.
- For specialty nursing and home physical therapy, Ankota coordinates care delivery across disciplines and records clinical documentation on tablet computers.
- Ankota also offers FamilyConnect to help keep family members apprised of their loved ones care.
You can learn more about Ankota at www.ankota.com or by calling 800.909.9866.
About Ankota
Ankota is a leading service provider of innovative, technology-based software for home care management. The company is a pioneer of next generation SaaS solutions for Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM), Private Duty, Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Physical Therapy and Home Infusion markets. Ankota is committed to improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside the hospital setting.
Ankota's suite of solutions includes: "delivery model" optimization - automating complex scheduling requirements; telephony and web-based tracking of patient visits and health status; paperless trails for supervision and audits; billing systems integration; and accurate, real-time reporting. Ankota's Family Connect, a secure web-based tool, ensures patient families are always one click away from knowing their relative's health and well-being.
Founded in 2008, Ankota, Inc. is based in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Minneapolis. For more information please go to http://www.ankota.com/.
Posted on Mon, Aug 23, 2010
November 15th – 18th in Atlanta GA
Baltimore, MD: Ankota looks forward to exhibiting at the MedTrade Conference and Expo from November 15th – 18th. The conference will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
MedTrade prides itself on “Connecting the HME Industry.” Their conference, entitled THE NATIONAL HOME HEALTH CARE EXPOSITION TM continues to be the leader in serving the home health care marketplace by providing a forum to bring buyers and sellers together while offering educational development programs.
“Ankota’s solution is exactly what the HME industry needs at this time,” explained Ankota CEO Will Hicklen. “Ankota offsets the extreme reimbursement pressure DME companies are facing by giving them the tools to increase their delivery capacity without increasing cost.” Ankota’s software solution achieves this by providing delivery schedule optimization that saves the agency money in five different ways:
- Assignments and routes are automatically calculated, saving each driver 45 minutes or more per day
- Delivery routes are optimized, reducing driving miles, driving time, fuel costs and vehicle costs
- Real-time changes to schedules can be accommodates with a drag-and-drop interface and simple tools to deal with emergency deliveries throughout the day.
- Status is tracked in real-time, allowing back office workers to manage by exception rather than needing to follow-up on each delivery. Ultimately this enables each back office worker to manage more field resources and can enable the agency to increase territories or product lines
- The hosted solution with a growing number of automated integrations to inventory and billing systems eliminates the need for ongoing IT staff support
You can download an Ankota DME product brochure here.
Please visit Ankota at booth 230.
About MedTrade
Medtrade and Medtrade Spring are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of the Nielsen Company. Nielsen Business Media is a full service event management company that professionally operates, arranges, organizes and sponsors trade shows, expositions, conferences, conventions and meetings for associations, corporations and government entities. Nielsen is also one of the world's largest leading publishing and information companies and has leading marketing positions in consumer magazines, directories and information services, business information as well as educational publishing.
About Ankota
Ankota is a leading service provider of innovative, technology-based software for home care management. The company is a pioneer of next generation SaaS solutions for Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM), Private Duty, Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Physical Therapy and Home Infusion markets. Ankota is committed to improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside the hospital setting.
Ankota's suite of solutions includes: "delivery model" optimization - automating complex scheduling requirements; telephony and web-based tracking of patient visits and health status; paperless trails for supervision and audits; billing systems integration; and accurate, real-time reporting. Ankota's Family Connect, a secure web-based tool, ensures patient families are always one click away from knowing their relative's health and well-being.
Founded in 2008, Ankota, Inc. is based in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Minneapolis. For more information please go to http://www.ankota.com/.
Posted on Wed, May 05, 2010
Ankota's rapid rise and relentless focus on ROI for its customers is recognized in SmartCEO Magazine's Annual Circle of Excellence Awards
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - "We are thrilled to be named the HOT STARTUP by SmartCEO Magazine," said company CEO and co-founder, Will Hicklen. "SmartCEO follows the most dynamic companies in the Mid-Atlantic region-this is an exciting recognition that we are growing a successful company that addresses immediate needs for home healthcare companies," said Hicklen. SmartCEO's Circle of Excellence Awards event will be held on May 12, 2010 at the Intercontinental Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore from 6:00-9:00p.m. Several customers and leaders in the healthcare community will join Ankota in the celebration.
"The secret to Ankota's early success is its relentless focus on immediate ROI for its clients-something the struggling healthcare industry can embrace," writes Jeanine Clingenpeel in the May 2010 feature story. Ankota's technology is usually self-funding in the first quarter of use. Customers typically see immediate reductions in certain operating expenses, increase their capacity with existing staff, and accelerate billing by days or even weeks.
"Circle of Excellence winners are not only selected and honored for their accomplishments, but for demonstrating success in applying unique leadership attributes that significantly benefits their business and the community," said Craig Burris, Publisher at SmartCEO Magazine. "We are honored to recognize Will Hicklen as one of Greater Baltimore's standout leaders." The full article is available online http://www.smartceo.com/content/digitalba0510
Hicklen credits the company's early success to an all-star leadership team that includes Dr. Hunter Young, a physician at Johns Hopkins and the company's Chief Medical Officer, Ken Accardi, Chief Technology Officer and veteran CIO from GE Healthcare, and Marc Ottinger, formerly of Anderson Consulting, who is COO. Ankota is Hicklen's fourth software startup, the last, iLumin, was successfully sold to Computer Associates.
The idea for Ankota came to Will while helping his wife, Sandy, during her three year battle with cancer. Hicklen's frustrations over coordinating her care illuminated an inefficient system with tremendous opportunity to improve care planning and execution.
His 20+ years experience with supply chain technologies and business performance management gave him a unique perspective. "There are great people in healthcare who are very committed to what they do, but they are saddled with a system that forces them to spend time doing unproductive things. This is incredibly inefficient and costly to the system." Adding, "These are problems that we have solved in other industries."
About Ankota: Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM), focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside of the hospital. HDM is a process-centric, technology-enabled approach to managing the "delivery model," automating complex scheduling requirements and optimizing scarce resources such as people, time, equipment, and supplies.
Customers include Home Health Care, Private Duty, Home Infusion, Respiratory Therapy, Home Medical Equipment (HME/DME) providers, and more.
Founded in 2008 and launched in 2009, Ankota, Inc. is based in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis. For more information please go to http://ankota.com
Posted on Tue, Mar 09, 2010
(Baltimore, MD and Moorestown, NJ) Ankota Inc. and Franklin Productivity Alliance LLC (FPA) announced today the formation of a partnership where FPA will market and sell Ankota's technology and services in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and surrounding areas.
"We're thrilled to partner with Franklin Productivity Alliance," says Ankota CEO and co-founder, Will Hicklen, adding, "Their commitment to better organizing and managing health care delivery, and support of initiatives such as in Aging In Place & related technologies, makes them a perfect complement to Ankota."
Under the partnership, Franklin Productivity Alliance will market and sell Ankota's progressive Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM) technology and provide integration services and training for related technologies.
"Ankota has organized healthcare into a highly efficient delivery model, allowing it to be better planned and coordinated. Ankota's technology is truly groundbreaking, cutting operational costs and dramatically improving productivity for the companies that deliver health care services, equipment, and supplies for patients in the home," says Dean Jester, President of Franklin Productivity Alliance. "Even the way customers access the technology is efficient," says Jester, referencing the Software-as- a-Service model through which customers pay only as they use it and access through secure internet, mobile and telephony connections.
About Ankota:
Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM), focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside of the hospital. HDM is a process-centric, technology enabled approach to managing the "delivery model," automating complex scheduling requirements and optimizing scarce resources such as people, time, equipment, and supplies.
Founded in 2008, Ankota, Inc. is based in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis. For more information please go to http://ankota.com/
About Franklin Productivity Alliance
Franklin Productivity Alliance LLC provides Go to Market services for technology partners for both Sales Preparation and Sales Representation. A unique combination of FPA direct services and Alliance member offerings provide cost effective productivity solutions that help end users meet their goals for efficiency and growth. For more on FPA please visit http://franklinproductivity.com/
Posted on Wed, Jan 20, 2010
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND (January 18, 2010) - According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.2 million people are currently employed in the Private Duty Home Health Care market and it is expected to add more than 400,000 jobs over the next ten years. One of the major challenges facing these professionals is the lack of a comprehensive software solution that can cost effectively and efficiently address the specific needs of their industry. Ankota, Inc. now provides a specific management system for this segment of the healthcare industry and they will be unveiling it at the 5th Annual Private Duty Home Care Leadership Summit and Expo taking place January 24-26 in Phoenix. (They will be located at booth 21 at the conference.)
"Private Duty companies have been technology-starved for many years and we wanted to help them improve their systems and therefore improve their patient care ," says Ankota CEO and co-founder Will Hicklen. "Our packaging and pricing is suitable for both full and part time staff, with simple or complex needs, and addresses the Private Duty market with a scalable, easy to use solution that offers immediate return on investment." The package includes:
- Comprehensive Care Planning
- Scheduling and Resource Optimization
- Telephony & Mobile Resource Tracking
- Real-time escalation of Care Concerns
- Work Tracking & Reporting
- A Virtual Logbook for Distant Family Members
- Billing
Hicklen added, "To thrive in this growing market, the companies with the tools to deliver operational excellence will be the ones who win. Every company we talk to is concerned about their ability to grow profitability, and we can help that immediately."
According to Bill Dombi, Esq., Vice President of Legal Affairs of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice and Director for the Center for Health Care Law in Washington, DC, "We are in a new environment that demands companies become more efficient and coordinate care better, with increasing levels of accountability. We are excited about the emergence of new technologies to improve productivity in our industry and pleased to welcome Ankota to the 5th Annual Private Duty Home Care Leadership Summit & Expo."
About Ankota: Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM), focused on improving the quality and efficiency of health care outside of the hospital. HDM is a process-centric, technology-enabled approach to managing the "delivery model," automating complex scheduling requirements and optimizing scarce resources such as people, time, equipment, and supplies.
Ankota's Private Duty offering adds to the company's suite of solutions that help companies plan, coordinate and deliver care outside of the hospital setting. Ankota's HDM suite already serves Home Health, Medical Equipment (HME/DME), Respiratory Therapy (RT) and Infusion. HDM solutions are integrated, scalable for small to large businesses, and available via subscription.
Founded in 2008, Ankota, Inc. is based in Baltimore, Maryland with offices in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis. For more information please go to http://ankota.com/
Posted on Wed, Jan 06, 2010
Baltimore, MD: Ankota CEO was recently interviewed by host John Palmer on Retirement Living TV (RLTV). In the interview, Will talks about specific problems solved by Ankota, such as reducing the driving mileage and paperwork in home care agencies. Will also shares how personal experiences with the care of his wife and mother led to the creation of Ankota.
"RLTV is a great resource producing outstanding content," exclaimed Hicklen, "we're pleased to have had a chance to share our message on their network."
About RLTV
Retirement Living TV (RLTV) is the only cable network dedicated to serving adults 50+ by providing information and entertainment relevant to their needs and lifestyles. RLTV's Emmy award-winning programming focuses on everything from healthcare, finance, travel, lifestyle, comedy, and drama. Visit RLTV online at http://www.rl.tv/
About Ankota
Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM). Ankota provides Home Care Software Solutions delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that improves efficiency and compliance within Home Healthcare Operations. All Ankota solutions are designed with inputs from the home care community with the goal to provide better patient care in a provider-friendly manner. For more information, please visit www.ankota.com.
Posted on Mon, Jan 04, 2010
Ankota CTO Ken Accardi is quoted in a new video released by Babson College to promote their Fast Track MBA program. The Fast Track MBA was designed to enable successful mid-career professionals to learn the skills needed to be successful entrepreneurs. Ken completed the program in 2005 and uses the knowledge from his Fast Track MBA on a daily basis at Ankota.
"Before my studies at Babson, I already knew how to create software products such as scheduling software for home care," Accardi explained, "but I never would have known how to optimize the product to fit into the health care value chain. Our ability to fully understand what home care customers need in order to be successful and then to apply our expertise in process management, SaaS, cloud computing and other areas has led to our success. I also learned that 'the whole entrepreneur' needs to be able to do whatever it takes - so as a CTO I'm also a web master, a quality leader, a CIO and even our face to the social media."
About the Babson Fast Track MBA
In just 24 months-considerably less than traditional part-time MBA programs-you can earn an MBA from one of the nation's most respected business schools. Fast Track combines in-person and Web-based learning by pairing the most up-to-date virtual learning technologies with highly innovative approach to business education. The Fast Track's central, unifying theme is entrepreneurial leadership in a changing global environment.
About Ankota
Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM). Ankota provides Home Care Software Solutions delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that improves efficiency and compliance within Home Healthcare Operations. All Ankota solutions are designed with inputs from the home care community with the goal to provide better patient care in a provider-friendly manner. For more information, please visit www.ankota.com.
Posted on Thu, Nov 05, 2009
At the World Health IT Congress, 8-10 November in Alexandria VA
Baltimore, MD and Alexandria, VA: Ankota joins an all star cast including former president Bill Clinton at the World Health Information Technology Congress, which runs from November 8th through the 10th at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Ankota has been invited to share best practices in Home Care Scheduling and Transitional Care at the Exhibition. In addition to other conference activities, Ankota will be presenting a poster Entitled Enabling Home Care Delivery to be as Efficient as FedEx and UPS. For a copy of the poster, please email info@ankota.com.
Also being released at the show is a new Ankota Whitepaper about managing transitional care. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that Readmissions among Medicare patients is 20% in the first 30 days and 34% in the first 90 days. The study, based on data from 2004, indicated that the costs to Medicare that year were $17.4B. Ankota is bringing our expertise in Care Scheduling and Care Coordination to help manage this issue across silos of care. The whitepaper is available here.
When asked why Ankota, typically focused on Home Care Agencies is attending the World Health IT Congress, a more hospital-oriented show, CEO Will Hicklen was quick to answer. Hicklen explained "Healthcare needs to be patient-centered and not contained in silos. Ankota's Healthcare Delivery Management approach is pioneering the coordination of care to solve this." Hicklen added that "Many of the hospitals represented at WHIT have post-acute care groups or provide home services like Infusion Therapy and Respiratory therapy that have been difficult to coordinate. We can help them with these issues as well as the management of transitional care."
About WHIT
The 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT v.5.0) is the premier industry event for senior executives tasked with making these multi-million dollar IT decisions. WHIT v.5.0 presents the latest innovations and initiatives in accelerating the adoption and implementation of information technology in the health care setting. Through thought-provoking case studies, in-depth presentations and at times controversial debates, healthcare executives along with private and public sector leaders will offer insights into improving health and healthcare through IT. Gain a comprehensive understanding of both applications and technologies required to be an innovative leader in a time of resource constraints in a setting that cultivates real dialogue and discussion about how your organization can evolve in this ever-changing informational age.
About Ankota
Ankota is the pioneering company in the field of Healthcare Delivery Management (HDM). Ankota provides Home Care Software Solutions delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model that improves efficiency and compliance within Home Healthcare Operations. All Ankota solutions are designed with inputs from the home care community with the goal to provide better patient care in a provider-friendly manner. For more information, please visit http://www.ankota.com/.