Bridging the Healthcare Interoperability Gap

Interoperability has been a major challenge in healthcare since the early days of electronic medical records. A 2015 survey of nurses found that the lack of interoperability between medical devices and electronic health records is not only burdensome for them but can lead to dangerous medical errors. Some healthcare organizations have attempted to integrate their systems to streamline data, but doing so has been a slow, expensive process that is also difficult to maintain. Now, a startup company founded just last year, has developed an integration platform as a service intended to ease some of that pain for healthcare organizations. Palm Beach Gardens, FL-based Bridge Connector recently raised $4.5 million in seed funding from Tampa, FL-based Axioma Ventures. Bridge Connector allows healthcare organizations to connect disparate systems like electronic medical record systems, billing systems, lab systems, etc. "We've come up with a system that can really help them automate their data flows," CEO David Wenger told MD+DI.  Bridge Connector acts as a secure pipeline between end-points, moving medical data between systems directly, without needing to store sensitive electronic healthcare information in another database. Data is transferred through a local session using AES 256-bit encryption, and all data is cleared once the transfer is complete, the company noted. The seed funding is backed by Howard Jenkins, former CEO of Publix Super Markets, who joined Bridge Connector earl...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news