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American Messaging Services, LLC and Doc Halo, LLC Agree to a Strategic PartnershipLEWISVILLE, Texas & CINCINNATI --(Business Wire)-- American Messaging Services, LLC ("American Messaging"), the most trusted provider of critical messaging services in the United States and Doc Halo, LLC ("Doc Halo"), a pioneer in secure healthcare communications, are pleased to announce they have agreed to a strategic partnership to improve healthcare communication. Reflecting a shared vision, the two companies have entered into a bi-directional revenue sharing agreement in which each company will benefit from their individual and collective efforts. American Messaging will also acquire a 25 percent equity interest in Doc Halo, the proceeds of which will be used to finance growth and continued product development. The companies' combined customer base of more than 500,000 medical professionals and over 1,300 hospitals will now have immediate access to state-of-the-art technology that includes mobile applications and a mobile health platform for secure and critical communication. The partnership will now deliver a comprehensive suite of healthcare communication products and services that address the mobile health, secure communication and critical messaging needs of healthcare organizations throughout the United States. J. Roy Pottle, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Messaging, said, "The growth in smart phones and more recent changes to the American Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), particularly the creation of more rigorous standards related to protected health information represent a meaningful opportunity for American Messaging to leverage its strengths as a critical messaging company. To do so we chose to partner with Doc Halo due to the quality of their secure messaging application but most importantly due to the domain expertise of their executive team. Dr. Jose Barreau and Dr. Amit Gupta, both highly respected oncologists, have a deep understanding of what is needed to ultimately improve patient cre through secure and collaborative software applications - that understanding is clearly evident in Doc Halo's software." Doc Halo CEO Jose Barreau, MD, said, "At Doc Halo, our mission is to improve the quality of healthcare. We do this by providing physicians and healthcare organizations innovative mobile technologies that improve and secure their communication workflow. Partnering with American Messaging allows us to combine a very large customer base and critical messaging expertise with the healthcare domain expertise and superior technology of Doc Halo. We share a common mission and Doc Halo is very excited to partner with a company known throughout the country for its reliability and dependability." Pottle went on to say, "We could not be more pleased to partner with Doc Halo, which leverages both companies' core strengths. American Messaging has been a trusted provider of messaging services to the medical community for over 30 years, serving over 1,200 hospitals and medical practices throughout the United States, while Doc Halo's software and domain expertise ensure we can continue to evolve our collective product suite to ultimately improve patient care through more effective and efficient communication among healthcare professionals." Dave Andersen, President and Chief Operating Officer of American Messaging concluded by saying, "Our customers recognize the importance of utilizing the most reliable networks for their critical messages. They also realize the value of improving healthcare communications by providing secure messaging capabilities for physicians, staff members and call centers. This revolutionary and integrated healthcare communications platform will allow organizations to combine the reliability of paging technology for critical messaging with the improved efficiency and HIPAA compliance provided by secure messaging applications." About Doc Halo Doc Halo is the professional standard for real-time HIPAA-secure texting for physicians, staff and healthcare organizations. The Doc Halo application is designed to streamline HIPAA-compliant sharing of critical patient information within a secure environment. The Doc Halo secure text messaging system is trusted by individual physicians, their staffs, and comprehensive healthcare networks as the solution for real-time compliant communication. Because of the intuitive operational structure of the Doc Halo system, physicians and healthcare organizations see efficiencies with their critical communications within minutes of registration. For more information visit www.dochalo.com About American Messaging American Messaging is the second largest critical messaging company in the United States delivering more than 5 million critical messages per day. American Messaging is a trusted provider of critical messaging services to over 1,200 hospitals nationwide. For more information visit www.americanmessaging.net
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