About InstiComm
InstiComm LLC was formed in 2006 to market solutions for healthcare practice management using wireless business communication tools. The first of these solutions is the InstiCommMD designed for healthcare providers that have patient encounter outside the office setting.
Management Team:
James E. Doty – President and CEO
Jim Doty is the past president of HealthCare Partners, LTD. (HCP) Management Services and consulting Division; past executive vice president and chief development officer for HCP, LTD. (the parent company to The Camden Group); and a founder, president and chief executive officer of The Camden Group. He has over thirty-three years of healthcare experience and is specialized in management service organization (MSO) development, physician group practice management, primary care group practice development, and the myriad of hospital/physician relationships. Mr. Doty is a recognized speaker on healthcare issues from the physician’s point of view. Mr. Doty received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
W.D. Bert Newman – Chief Operating Officer and CFO
Bert Newman’s career in health management spans some twenty-five years, and it includes experience in home health care, home infusion therapy and medical practice management. In each of these fields he created, built and managed privately-owned companies that were innovative and pioneering in their respective specialties. Mr. Newman holds the Bachelor and Master degrees from Whittier College (California) has done post-graduate work at the University of Southern California. His business experience reflects a variety of interests, with special emphasis on the start-up and growth of new concepts in healthcare and related fields. He currently functions as a private investor concentrating in venture capital opportunities in the bio-technology, medical devices and healthcare industries.
John C. Shovic, PhD - Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Shovic was previously CTO of MiloCreek, a consulting and services firm specializing in cyber-security with a focus on supplying expertise in computer security regulatory and technical areas to financial and medical institutions. As a founding member of the bankCDA Board of Directors, he currently serves on its Technology, ALCO and Loan Committees. For the past four years, he has also served as a Professor of Cyber-Security at Eastern Washington University, at Washington State University and at the University of Idaho. He has worked in industry for over twenty years and has founded six companies: Advance Hardware Architectures, TriGeo Network Security, Blue Water Technologies, MiloCreek, LLC, InstiComm, LLC and bankCDA, a community bank located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Dr. Shovic has twenty-four years of experience in technology transfer, software development / management and engineering and business consulting in a variety of companies and industries.
Gaurang Desai – VP, Software Development
Mr. Desai is the President of Sarvian International Inc. During the last twenty years he has developed new applications using emerging technologies such as touch, video conferencing, e-commerce, computer 3D graphics and animations. Mr. Desai has long been involved in developing software solutions for the documentation of patient visits by physicians, first using a pen computing tablet with Microsoft Windows OS, and then redesigning it for smart phones using the Palm OS platform. He is a co-founder of InstiComm, and developer of its original software. He has a comprehensive understanding of the issues involved in using the right technology for this critical task. Mr. Desai received his MBA from the University of Dayton, MSEE from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey and BSEE from Gujarat University, India.
Barbara Ueckert – VP, Customer Service Operations
Ms. Ueckert has been Managing Partner of MiloCreek, a consulting firm specializing in technology transfer, company / product development and cyber-security with a focus on computer security. She brings over thirty years of professional experience in management, operations and corporate administration to a wide variety of industries including construction project management, civil engineering, education governmental agencies, medical services, software development, semi-conductor development and sales, and industrial / environmental systems development. Ms. Ueckert was recently appointed by the Governor of the State of Idaho to the Board of Directors of Idaho TechConnect, Inc., a state-funded initiative to improve the environment for entrepreneurs in the state.