About Us | Historical Timeline

Founded in 1999 by Paul Adkison, his vision was to emulate the cellular telephone market model by designing a platform that would scale from a single user to enterprise wide deployments for the mission critical mobile healthcare market. Seeing that the majority of the commercially available mobile solutions were utilizing consumer grade synchronization models with the resulting poor throughout performance and support and reliability problems not acceptable in the healthcare environment, Mr. Adkison recruited Chris Updegraft and Chris Harmon to lead the architecture and development of the platform. As development progressed, market studies revealed the need to PDA enable the patient encounter documentation process of dictation. With the majority of the dictation input solutions still using either magnetic tapes, dedicated devices and fixed location telephones, PDA dictation became the first application introduced by IQMax.

  • October 2001 – Introduced IQSpeak® - Healthcare markets first PDA dictation solution and the first dictation solution introduced to operate on the Palm™ OS.
  • February 2002 – IQSpeak® support for Microsoft™ Pocket PC™ PDAs announced.
  • March 2002 – IQMax signs MedQuist, the country’s largest transcription service organization, as a distribution partner.
  • July 2002 – IQMax signs HealthScribe, one of the country’s largest transcription service organizations, as a distribution partner.
  • March 2003 – Lanier Healthcare, recently acquired by MedQuist, begins marketing IQSpeak® under the product family name of PhysAssistIQ.
  • November 2003 – IQMax announces IQCharge™, mobile charge capture solution.
  • December 2003 – IQMax announces IQEnterprise, premise deployable platform