Spok Celebrates a Decade of Excellence and Innovation

July 08, 2024 at 09:15 AM EDT

The Company’s strategic mergers and acquisitions over the past 40 years have culminated in its position as a global leader in critical communication software.

Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK) and a leader in healthcare communications, announced that today marks the 10-year anniversary of Spok. In 2011, USA Mobility Inc. acquired Amcom Software. In 2014 the company completed its integration, creating a single, cohesive business—and Spok was born. Spok expanded on the strong legacy of those companies (and others before them) to solve critical communication challenges that help hospitals and health systems improve patient outcomes and support public safety when seconds count and lives are at stake.

“With a powerful foundation built by our predecessor companies, Spok has experienced tremendous growth and innovation,” said Vincent D. Kelly, chief executive officer of Spok Holdings, Inc. “Over the past several decades, Spok’s talented and experienced team has consolidated the paging industry and combined the power of paging with communication software to make a groundbreaking impact in our industry. We continue to invest in our communication platforms, enhancing our solutions, and delivering exceptional products to our customers."

The company has a long and rich history as a leader in communication solutions. The name “Spok” symbolizes an essential part of a greater whole: like the spokes of a wheel, each one supports the others and the entire network. The name also signifies the company's shift in 2014 from offering dependable paging services and leading software to providing an expanded, integrated range of solutions that address diverse challenges across various industries. Spok embodies a unified identity as a global leader in critical communications software.

From the company’s beginnings in 1982 to the present, Spok products help improve patient care by connecting clinical teams with the people and information they need. The Spok Care Connect® platform enables faster collaboration between all care team members. Today, Spok solutions are in more than 2,200 hospitals, including most of the adult and children’s hospitals named to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Spok is a global leader in critical communication solutions and continues to innovate to set the standard for the future of healthcare communication.

About Spok

Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is proud to be a global leader in healthcare communications. We deliver clinical information to care teams when and where it matters most to improve patient outcomes. Top hospitals rely on the Spok Care Connect® platform to enhance workflows for clinicians and support administrative compliance. Our customers send over 70 million messages each month through their Spok® solutions. Spok enables smarter, faster clinical communication.

Spok is a trademark of Spok Holdings, Inc. Spok Care Connect and Spok Mobile are trademarks of Spok, Inc.

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