iTriage's health care apps took off in a big way in 2012. The iPhone, iPad and Android app aims allows patients to research causes of various symptoms, make appointments, check-in with practitioners, see wait times and research pricing. (The website offers a similar dynamic interface.)
“We're one of the most widely distributed medical applications,” says Peter Hudson, CEO and co-founder.
The iTriage apps have had about eight million downloads in 2012. The company mushroomed from 30 employees to 90 employees over the course of the year and is looking to hire as many as 20 more staffers by mid-2013. Positions are primarily in software engineering, with specific needs for Ruby on Rails, iOS and databases skills.
The company offers hospitals, pharmacies and medical practitioners two tiers of service and currently has “tens of thousands” of customers, says Hudson.
Hudson started the company with Chief Medical Officer Wayne Guerra in 2008 in Lakewood, and moved the company to offices in LoDo in May 2012. They felt a dearth of information was hindering health care.
“I had no access to information and I was a doctor,” says Hudson. “If it was like that for me as a doctor, I thought, 'what is it like for patients?' It's been extremely rewarding. As previously practicing emergency physicians, we like to say it took 20 years to see 50,000 patients and three years to help eight million."
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