Steward Health Care to Expand Industry-Leading Ambulance App Twiage to Massachusetts Hospitals and Facilities

Boston, MA – Emergency departments at Steward Health Care hospitals and facilities across Massachusetts will soon feature Twiage, a HIPAA-compliant app that allows emergency responders to share patient information with hospital personnel real-time, to expedite lifesaving care. Steward will expand Twiage to all of its emergency departments after a successful year-long pilot program with 14 emergency service providers at five hospitals. Designed by physicians and emergency medical technicians, Twiage offers emergency responders the ability to use a smartphone to share real-time patient data and send HIPAA-compliant photos and videos so that hospital personnel can prepare cath labs, operating rooms, Stroke Teams, and hospital beds well in advance of a patient’s arrival to the emergency room. Twiage also offers accurate GPS-tracking to help hospitals plan estimated times of arrival, shaving life-saving minutes off of treatment time to improve patient outcomes. “In emergency care, speed and information save lives,” said Brenden Hayden, Steward Health Care’s Director of Emergency Medical Services. “Steward is committed to delivering high-quality, integrated care that helps patients live healthy lives. We’re excited to add Twiage to every Steward emergency department because our experience shows that sharing real-time data with our emergency rooms help us to treat our patients more quickly.” Since 2016, five Steward hospitals have used Twiage, connecti...
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