All Pennsylvania Hospitals Can Now Receive Data from Affiliated EMS and Fire Agencies, Starting with Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, PA and CONCORD, CA (March 19, 2018): Beyond Lucid Technologies (www.beyondlucid.com), an award-winning health-and-safety technology firm founded by two Carnegie Mellon University alumni (and a recipient of CMU’s Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund) today announced that all hospitals in the Commonwealth have the ability to receive prehospital data, in as little as 30 seconds from capture in the field via the MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange.  EMS agencies that use BLT’s MEDIVIEW™ electronic patient care record (ePCR) documentation platform additionally benefit by sharing their data with hospitals via MEDIVIEW BEACON at no additional cost.  (Users of other ePCR systems can send data to hospitals for a nominal fee.)  The first two care facilities to benefit from this new data channel are Allegheny General Hospital and Allegheny Health Network's West Penn Hospital.  According to Chris Witt, Co-Founder, President and CTO of Beyond Lucid Technologies, and a graduate of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University: “There is one reason that BLT chose the Allegheny Health Network to introduce MEDIVIEW BEACON to Pennsylvania, and that is the prehospital leadership team under Chief Bob McCaughan.  When Jonathon and I were starting out, Chief McCaughan was commanding Pittsburgh EMS.  Even in the years since then, he has offered so generously of his time and expertise that he owe him a debt of gratitude.”...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Industry News Source Type: news