TeleTracking Technologies Names Michael Gallup President And COO

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleTracking Technologies' Chairman and CEO Michael Zamagias today announced Michael Gallup as President and Chief Operating Officer.  Effective immediately, Gallup will have responsibility for all of the operational business units of TeleTracking including sales and marketing, strategy and business development, product development and product management, business analytics, support services and consulting.  Zamagias also formally confirmed he will continue in his role as Chief Executive Officer for the company. 

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Gallup had been a senior vice president of TeleTracking and COO of TeleTracking's Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) Division.  He joined TeleTracking from Hill-Rom in 2010, where he was vice president and general manager of Hill-Rom IT solutions, a global IT business unit. Previously, he held leadership positions at Hillenbrand Industries and IBM.   Zamagias, a Pittsburgh entrepreneur and majority owner of TeleTracking Technologies, has built a successful network of businesses in healthcare technology, commercial real estate development, banking/finance and energy development. 

"In his tenure with TeleTracking," Zamagias said, "Michael has displayed an extraordinary ability to see how the various business components we've assembled can be unified to give us greater opportunities in the marketplace. He has also demonstrated an outstanding ability to identify the needs of hospitals and fit our solutions to those needs.

"TeleTracking will continue to focus on software, services, expert consultation, enabling technologies and an open platform to deliver market leading healthcare solutions.  I'm extraordinarily confident in Michael's ability to further advance TeleTracking's leadership position.  We are unified in our vision that real-time capacity management solutions are poised to continue to deliver immense operational efficiencies and ongoing revenue development while supporting safe, quality patient care at our nation's hospitals at the very time when it's needed most." 

"With a legacy of more than 20 years supporting nearly 900 of the nation's leading healthcare institutions, TeleTracking is well positioned to support the patient throughput and resource optimization needs of hospitals in today's healthcare climate. My clear and direct vision is for TeleTracking to be the operational platform of choice for hospitals and health systems everywhere," said Gallup.

Interested parties may download TeleTracking's corporate fact sheet by clicking here.  Media inquires for interviews with Michael Gallup or Michael Zamagias should be directed to Dennis Morabito at [email protected].

About TeleTracking Technologies

For more than two decades, TeleTracking Technologies, the world leader in automated patient flow solutions, has applied proven principles of logistics management to hospitals and health systems to enhance patient care, improve financial performance and gain competitive advantage. Its industry-leading software and consulting services create an enterprise-wide platform, or "operational backbone," that connects patient flow and patient care for better outcomes. TeleTracking solutions reduce overcrowding, cut costs, generate revenue, fight the spread of infection, manage assets, accelerate patient transfers and provide a wealth of data for continual operational improvement and business development. It provides process planning and patient flow redesign through its consulting division, Avanti Patient Flow Services, and real-time asset and patient tracking through its TeleTracking RTLS Division.  For more information visit www.teletracking.com, contact us at [email protected] or join the conversation at http://blog.teletracking.com/.

CONTACT:
Dennis Morabito
Sr. Manager, Marketing Communications
TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
412-391-6078 / [email protected]

SOURCE TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.