Aries Health IT SolutionsAries Health IT
About us

A hospice software company
rooted in the eligibility path.

Aries Health IT Solutions designs products for teams who live between referral and first day of care. Our flagship, Atulya, packages years of Florida-wide intake, physician connectivity, and AI-assisted documentation into one platform built for that thread, not for replacing your EHR.

Why we exist

The bottleneck is the workflow, not the will.

Hospice eligibility in the United States takes an average of 11 days from initial referral to first day of care. That delay is measured in patients who never make it to hospice, or who arrive with only days left to receive support. The bottleneck isn't the clinical decision; it's the manual choreography around it. Faxes, phone-tag, redundant data entry, and disconnected systems stand between a patient and the care they need.

Aries was started to fix that. We built Atulya to digitize the entire eligibility workflow, from bedside intake to AI-drafted certification, so that hospice teams can spend their time on patients, not paperwork.

Track record

We did not learn hospice eligibility from a whiteboard.

Before Atulya, our team lived inside the eligibility pipeline across Florida, at volume, under contract, with real physicians and families waiting. The product choices we make now are shaped by that history: what breaks at 2 a.m., what EHRs reward, and what actually gets a patient onto service.

50,000+patient journeys supported

Across dozens of counties with hospice access; includes weekend and on-call coverage patterns typical of statewide programs.

Eligibility at scale across Florida

We have supported 50,000+ patient referrals and admissions for hospice programs serving dozens of counties statewide. That volume spans urban and rural catchments, different referral patterns, and varied documentation expectations. That experience we lean on when we design defaults, error handling, and escalation paths in Atulya.

Weekend and on-call coverage were part of the reality: referrals do not wait for Monday. We built operational muscle around after-hours queues, physician availability, and clear handoffs so patients were not stuck in limbo when the timing mattered most.

Patient-to-physician software before it was table stakes

We developed a patient-to-physician web application to tighten the eligibility loop: healthcare organizations could route a case so a physician could review the patient and context without the usual phone tag or fax round-trips.

The goal was speed with accountability: structured intake on one side, a decision-ready view on the other, and an audit trail in between. That same philosophy (single source of truth, physician-ready artifacts) is what Atulya extends end-to-end.

Native Android for how hospices actually work

As our two largest customers, VITAS Healthcare and Empath Health, scaled bedside and field workflows, we evolved the product into a native Android solution to integrate more cleanly with the EHR and device ecosystems their teams already used.

Mobile web was not always enough for SSO, certificate pinning, peripheral workflows, or the reliability clinicians expect at the bedside. Moving to native Android let us meet those constraints while keeping the physician experience fast and consistent.

AI that turns forms into physician-ready summaries

We integrated an AI-powered pipeline to ingest intake paperwork, normalize fields, and produce concise, reviewable documents for physicians, so MD time went to clinical judgment, not retyping or hunting through PDFs.

Human-in-the-loop was non-negotiable: models suggested structure and language; physicians still owned the decision. Atulya’s AI-drafted CTI continues that pattern: generated from structured intake, always editable, always attributable.

Operations across county contracts

Beyond engineering, we ran day-to-day operations for multi-county programs: staffing coverage, escalation playbooks, and ongoing client relationships so eligibility work kept moving when volume spiked or edge cases appeared.

That operational load taught us where software alone fails: handoffs, SLAs, and communication rhythms matter as much as features. We carry that into how we partner on Atulya rollouts.

Product leadership grounded in constraints

We defined product requirements and roadmaps that balanced what nurses and medical directors needed in the field with what engineering, compliance, and EHR reality allowed, sequencing releases so the highest-risk bottlenecks (physician access, form completion, certification) were addressed first.

Atulya is the next chapter: the same problems, fewer compromises, and a platform purpose-built for hospice eligibility from day one.

The numbers we're trying to change

Timely hospice election is not only better for patients and families; it can be better for the Medicare program too. Reporting on an analysis commissioned by the Research Institute for Home Care (ATI Advisory), Hospice News summarized findings that Medicare could save an estimated roughly $1.19 billion to $1.5 billion per year if eligible beneficiaries elected the hospice benefit about five days earlier, largely through fewer late acute interventions. Faster, less fragmented eligibility workflows are one of the levers agencies control to help patients reach signed election sooner.

11 days

Average referral-to-eligibility today

18–24

Median hospice length of stay (days)

41%

Hospice referral rejection rate, 2022

62.5%

‘Too late’ referrals attributed to physician factors

Sources: NHPCO Facts & Figures 2024 · CarePort/WellSky · NHPCO / Brown University study · Hospice News, "Earlier Hospice Election Could Save Medicare $1.5B Yearly" (Apr. 24, 2026) (Research Institute for Home Care / ATI Advisory Early Hospice Election Model)

How we build

Workflow over feature surface

We do one thing: hospice eligibility. We do it faster than anyone else. We are not building another EHR.

Clinical judgment first

AI drafts. Physicians decide and sign. Every AI-generated artifact in Atulya is reviewable, editable, and audit-logged.

Compliance is a feature

HIPAA, 42 CFR 418.22, audit trails, encryption at rest and in transit: these aren't checkboxes; they shape our data model.

Built with hospice teams

Our designs come from real hospice nurses, medical directors, and intake coordinators, not from imagining what they need.

Partner with us.

We're looking for hospice agencies and medical directors to shape Atulya alongside us.

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