Health XCEL, Inc., is an enterprise health care software company that enables patients and physicians to securely exchange health related information.

Our logo is the crow, which according to Iroquois legend carried the gift of life. It is our goal to follow our mascot's example by revolutionizing the health care industry and breathing new life into that market sector.

At the onset of the Internet, people were just figuring out how to interact with it. The pioneers from that era were the ones who gave users the ability to “see” the web through a web browser and “find” information with the help of a search engine. Enabling users to send email forever changed the way business was conducted and how we keep in touch with friends. The last 5 years has seen an explosion in the way users are able to express themselves through posting pictures, blogs, in forums and instant messages. Social networks, such as Facebook, took that a step further by allowing users to create friends and groups of friends and like-minded people. Users were able to have a public and private life; restricting some information to a person or group, and broadcasting other parts of their life. The popularity of social networks shows that it’s a medium users enjoy and it makes sense to them to interact with in this way as it mimics real life to an extent. Most importantly, it has proven to be a medium in which millions freely participate and exchange information and ideas.

When talking about health and the Internet, or e-health, in the same context, you have to take a step back to those pioneering days when users could mostly just retrieve basic information. Most information currently still resides in hard-to-get-to silos (a.k.a. paper documents in filing cabinets). The practice of health is as old as time and there are, understandably, many relics, cob webs and antiquated ways of conducting business. We are proposing to change all of that and take the lessons learned from the current state of the Internet and apply them to the e-health space.

We want to enable the secure sharing of sensitive patient information by leveraging what we now know about successful online relationship management and empower countries, hospitals, physicians, patients, insurance companies and support groups with the tools to manage such information. By creating a client-centric health care network and putting the patient in charge of her own well-being, we are able to dramatically cut cost for physicians and providers, and at the same time increase efficiency. The overall result is a better service rendered to the patient. Patient and physicians will have access to health records when and where they need them and the patient controls the flow of information. Ultimately the healthcare related risks for both patients and physicians are reduced through improved communication and access to important healthcare related data.