Nursepreneurs

Aliya Aaron worked as an IT consultant in nursing when she saw the need to connect nurses and healthcare. Working as a one-woman band show Aliya started AMR Healthcare as an IT consultant company to help firms to create information systems that improved the workflow. She slowly built up a core team with software developers and engineers so they could tackle bigger issues that her clients asked of her - that is building custom built software. Her one-woman consulting gig turned in to a team that creates software and solutions. While it’s easy to look at Aliya now and say she was a shoe-in for success from the get-go, there were a few things that she did that were vital (and did not guarantee) her success. Aliya was a nurse first and foremost. She had some background in information technology and she worked with frontline nurses to create solutions to workflow. She listened to what her clients were telling her - that they wanted custom solutions. Aliya didn’t have a background in software development, so