Compass Urgent Care expands in Mobile with smartphone app

Mobile, AL – December 6, 2011 – Compass Urgent Care announced that it has expanded its presence in the Mobile, Alabama community through a partnership with iTriage; the reusult is a smartphone application developed by Healthagen.

According to a recent survey by Nielson Company, 31 percent of mobile consumers in the U.S. now own a smartphone, with 50 percent adoption predicted by the end of this year. This growing consumer trend has lead Compass Urgent Care to reach out to smartphone toting patients by providing immediate, on-the-go access to information about its facility, services and a wide variety of healthcare information. To access iTriage, consumers can download the free application from the app stores for their iPhone or Androiddevices, or access it through any Web-enabled device at www.iTriageHealth.com.

“We are proud to offer the latest advanced technology to our community, all of which reinforces our commitment to improving healthcare access and information,” said Dr. Richard Oyler, clinic director. “Our partnership with iTriage complements our focus on providing more information about the services we offer and helps our patients quickly make informed healthcare decisions when minor accidents and illnesses occur.”

“When urgent care centers put useful medical information in the palm of their patient’s hands with iTriage, consumers are empowered to make informed decisions about where they will seek affordable care for their medical condition,” said Peter Hudson, CEO of Healthagen, developer of iTriage. “We live in a new world that requires patients to be more informed and responsible for their health and iTriage allows them to play a larger role in their overall healthcare.”

Compass Urgent Care is a walk-in adult and pediatric clinic available for treating non life-threatening illness or injury. Physicians with over 20 years of emergency medicine experience provide an alternative to the emergency department. Located at Airport and Snow Roads in Mobile, Compass Urgent Care’s state of the art facility features diagnostic x-ray and EKG.

Co-founded in 2008 by two emergency physicians, Healthagen LLC is a privately held company headquartered in Lakewood, CO.  iTriage, the company’s consumer mobile healthcare platform, offers a proprietary Symptom-to-Provider™ pathway that empowers patients to make better healthcare decisions. iTriage helps people answer the two most common medical questions: “What could I have?” and “Where should I go for treatment?” Millions of consumers around the globe have downloaded iTriage on their mobile devices and thousands of healthcare providers use iTriage to reach and communicate critical facility and service information to patients.