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Growth at American HealthTech shows no sign of slowing: American HealthTech Inc., a software company specializing in the long-term health care industry, based in Jackson.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-OCT-03
Format: Online - approximately 724 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
JACKSON -- The seeds of American HealthTech were planted in 1975, when Mediplex created a subsidiary, Diversified Information Services Corporation (DISC), to outsource automated accounting services to other nursing homes. The DISC staff was comprised of the nucleus of what would become the American HealthTech management team: Bill Smith, Bill Caldwell, Kurt Forster and Nelwyn Madison.

When Beverly Enterprises acquired Mediplex in 1982, DISC was sold to Smith, Caldwell and Forster. (Madison later became an owner.)

Today, American HealthTech is one of the largest software companies in the long-term care (nursing home) industry, and serves more than 3,000 clients nationwide.

"In its earliest days, American HealthTech only...

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