Prehospital Tech Startup Wins the American Heart Association ’s Health Tech Competition

New York, N.Y. – The American Heart Association (AHA) 2016 Health Tech Competition awarded the People’s Choice Award to Twiage, a novel prehospital communication solution enabling real-time triage and care coordination for incoming ambulances. The competition recognizes innovative healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes for heart health. Twiage delivers real-time situational awareness of incoming ambulances to busy emergency departments through a secure and HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. Paramedics and EMTs can use Twiage to notify a hospital of an incoming cardiac patient within seconds and then quickly transmit prehospital information such as vital signs, ECGs and patient demographics. By providing live patient data and GPS-tracked ETA for all incoming ambulances, Twiage helps hospitals accelerate treatment for heart attacks, strokes. and other critical emergencies, while improving performance measures, patient outcomes, and reducing costs. Dr. YiDing Yu founded Twiage to streamline prehospital care coordination and communication when she was frustrated by missing prehospital ECGs. “Research has shown time and time again that prehospital ECGs and strong EMS-hospital partnerships accelerate prehospital care coordination to save lives.” Ultimately, the current inefficiencies of prehospital care communication have high costs for both patients and hospitals; Dr. Yu notes, “Every year, prehospital delays in heart attack and stroke care cost hospit...
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