More to life than Apples

March 10, 2010

More to life than Apples

A Sarasota-based startup that got going by creating a hospital communications system to be used with an iPhone has branched out into new cellular technology, including BlackBerry smartphones. 

The company, Voalté, released its first product last year. It’s an iPhone application that serves as a central station for nurses in a medical facility to receive and send messages. Nurses can also communicate with shift supervisors and text info and data to each other over the system.

“But our goal was never to focus only on the iPhone,” Voalté co-founder Trey Lauderdale tells Coffee Talk. “We always wanted to focus on all the phones.”

While Lauderdale concedes he’s an Apple guy, just like many of the company’s employees, the fact that hundreds of potential clients use BlackBerrys and other phones was too big to ignore. Says Lauderdale: “The BlackBerry platform is the leading choice in the healthcare sector.”

Voalté, which is pronounced like volt and is derived from a communications trio of voice, alarm and texting, is close to completing the beta phase of its BlackBerry product line. Lauderdale says he is working on deals with two hospitals in Florida, one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast, to test the BlackBerry system in a medical setting.

For more on Voalté, go to the search box on http://www.review.net and search: Trey Lauderdale.