2004
- December 31, 2004
Better, Smarter, Faster: The Future of Mobile Computing in Healthcare
HealthTech Update - November 30, 2004
Gartner Analyzes Mobile Healthcare Solutions
The Medical Informatics Weblog - November 30, 2004
Improving Patient Safety Through E-Prescribing
I Only Have R.O.I.s For You
Craig Settles - November 11, 2004
Improving Revenue with Mobile Charge Capture
Advance for Health Information Executives - November 1, 2004
Patient Safety Driving Point-of-Care I.T. Plans
Mobile Health Data - October 18, 2004
Behind the Wires
HealthLeaders - October 11, 2004
Handheld Computers Aid Doctors at Duke Hospital
Linux Insider - October 4, 2004
The new old-fashioned doctor embraces the PDA
Mass. High Tech - September 21, 2004
PatientKeeper Puts Its Duke Up
Mobile Health Data - July 1, 2004
Practical Look at HIPAA Privacy and Security Issues
advance News magazines, advance for Health Information Executives, Online Edition - June 14, 2004
Sprint Selects PatientKeeper apps for healthcare offering
RCR wireless news - June 14, 2004
PatientKeeper Completes Series D Financing Round
Wireless NewsWireless Verticals - June 9, 2004
E-Health Firm PatientKeeper Takes $7M in Insider's Series D Round
Venture Wire Professional, Dow Jones - June 9, 2004
PatientKeeper Lands $7 M in Round Four
Boston Business Journal - June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper
Wall Street Journal - June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Pulls in $7 M in Fourth Round
Mass High Tech - June 8, 2004
Boston-Based PatientKeeper Raises $7 Million in Venture Capital
New England Tech Wire - June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Raises $7 Million
Mobile Health Data - June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Garners $7 M in New Funding
Healthcare IT News - June 3, 2004
PatientKeeper Loads Up On Clients
Healthcare IT World - June 2, 2004
Mobile Vendors Win Hearts, Want Minds
Health Data Management - June 1, 2004
PatientKeeper Inks New Deals
Mobile Health Data - June 1, 2004
Medicine On The Move
Wireless Week - May 7, 2004
Mobile Leadership from a Group Practice
Health Data Management - May 3, 2004
Interview With Paul Brient, President, Chief Executive Officer, PatientKeeper, Inc.
InformationWeek - March 1, 2004
Healthcare Enterprise : Wireless To The Rescue
InformationWeek - February 5, 2004
Christus Physicians Save Time Making Rounds with PatientKeeper's Mobile Software
Health-IT World News - January 15, 2004
LanVision, DxCG, PatientKeeper Get Jobs
Health-IT World - January 14, 2004
Duke Goes Mobile with PatientKeeper
Mobile Health Data - January 13, 2004
Md. Provider Extends Data Access
Health Data Management - January 12, 2004
Duke Health System Goes Mobile with Boston Firm
Triangle Business Journal, North Carolina - January 12, 2004
Duke University Health System Standardizes on PatientKeeper Platform to Enhance Patient Care
HIMSS Industry News, North Carolina
December 31, 2004
Better, Smarter, Faster: The Future of Mobile Computing in Healthcare
HealthTech Update
PatientKeeper profiled.
November 30, 2004
Gartner Analyzes Mobile Healthcare Solutions
The Medical Informatics Weblog
PatientKeeper, a provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare, announced today the release of "Analyst Insights on Mobile Healthcare Solutions," an online report featuring Gartner, Inc., that provides analysis of mobile healthcare solutions through an interview with analyst Jim Klein.
November 30, 2004
I Only Have R.O.I.s For You
Byline By Craig Settles
ISBN: 1-58776-827-5
Hudson House Publishing
I Only Have ROIs For You details how to build a business case for mobile and wireless technology that helps make money, save money, and run a better business. PatientKeeper client Children's Specialized Hospital is profiled.
November 11, 2004
Improving Revenue with Mobile Charge Capture
Advance for Health Information Executives
Hospitals are feeling increasing pressure to provide access to new technologies and procedures while at the same time confronting significant reductions in reimbursement rates. The result is unrelenting pressure on the bottom line and, in turn, on costs. Unfortunately, over the past 10 years, hospitals have largely eliminated non-essential costs and are now faced with difficult decisions about reducing services. However, for many health care organizations, there is a hidden opportunity both to increase revenue and to reduce costs without sacrificing services. This opportunity is the development of mobile computing.
November 1, 2004
Patient Safety Driving Point-of-Care I.T. Plans
Mobile Health Data
Lancaster General Hospital has a simple goal: to deliver safe, appropriate and consistent patient care. Reaching its goal and maintaining its patient care focus largely depends on point-of-care technology.
In early 2003, the Lancaster, Pa.-based hospital began rolling out medication administration and bar code technology that the 521-bed hospital's nursing staff hoped would reduce patients' risk of drug-related errors.
October 18, 2004
Behind the Wires
HealthLeaders
It's 8:15 a.m. and the Electronic Medical Record Selection committee at HealthCare Partners Medical Group in Torrance, Calif., already is in full tilt. Melayne Yocum, the group's executive vice president and chief operating officer, is leading a spirited discussion. She quickly becomes enmeshed in details and acronyms. Within a five-minute span, she discusses scoring RFPs, assembling a vendor FAQ, and incorporating PDAs into the system. But Yocum handles the lingo with aplomb, tossing out gems of business advice along the way. Remember, she says, the system is for clinicians. The physician vote, after all, is critical, she adds.
As the discussion veers to hardware, an animated Yocum interjects a question. Holding up her own PDA, she asks: "Can you imagine physicians using this much real estate?" Although the question is rhetorical, the answer will not be-at least not for the medical group's 350 physicians. The new EMR will mark a critical juncture in the group's history, which is why Yocum is prodding the committee to consider physicians' technology preferences. In the absence of a dedicated IT leader, the physician-owned, multispecialty group is looking to Yocum for leadership on automation projects such as the EMR initiative, which started in August 2003. Its members know that IT can help the group-and the 3,800 physicians in HealthCare Partners' independent physician association and specialty network-run better practices.
October 11, 2004
Handheld Computers Aid Doctors at Duke Hospital
Linux Insider
"The whole purpose [of the PDAs] is to really empower and to make the workflow efficient for the caregiver," Asif Ahmad, vice president and chief information officer for Duke University Health System, said. The PDAs now give more than 300 caregivers in DUHS immediate, wireless access to patient data.
Duke University freshmen may have their iPods, but they're not the only ones with new handheld toys.
This year, Duke provided all first-year residents at Duke University Hospital with handheld personal digital assistants during their orientation in June. The residents' Hewlett-Packard iPAQs, which normally cost between US$400 and $500 each, came loaded with software from PatientKeeper, a Boston-based company with which the university recently entered into a partnership.
October 4, 2004
The new old-fashioned doctor embraces the PDA
Mass. High Tech
Today's physicians are not your father's physicians, not by a long shot. Medical schools are turning out a new breed of medical professional that blends the heart and soul of the traditional family physician with the technology and opportunity of the computer age. They are called "new old-fashioned doctors."
That technology extends from the room-filling body scanners and advanced surgical suites to small computers and information-sharing that make today's physician more mobile and well connected than the old country doc ever dreamed of.
But just as important is that it gives the new physicians the opportunity to spend quality time with their patients while having the knowledge to appear just as "wise" and well informed.
The newest key to medical mobility is the PDA or handheld smartphone and mobile health care applications that link a physician to every patient's latest lab reports, medical records, test results, vitals, fellow physician's notes and reference material, and does so instantly and wirelessly from just about anywhere at any time.
September 21, 2004
PatientKeeper Puts Its Duke Up
Mobile Health Data
Duke University Health System in Durham, N.C., has implemented technology from Boston-based PatientKeeper, Inc., enabling more than 300 clinicians to use PDAs to access clinical results wirelessly via the PatientKeeper mobile platform. For the initial deployment, Duke has focused on residents, medical students, nursing students, and some faculty members, such as those from the surgery department, explains Paul Debien, directory for mobile computing at Duke Health Technology Solutions.
Duke, which previously had developed mobile software in-house, will deploy PatientKeeper applications throughout the delibery system. Among other things, PatientKeeper connects mobile devices with existing hospital information systems. At Duke, that means clinicians will access results through PDAs the same way whether they are connecting to Duke's own core information system or to systems from vendors such as Medical Information Technology, Inc., Westwood, MA, and Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA, which are also deployed within the delivery system.
July 1, 2004
Practical Look at HIPAA Privacy and Security Issues
advance News magazines, advance for Health Information Executives, Online Edition
While setting up a router, a technician, who happened to have a wireless adapter in his laptop, noticed a signal. Not expecting any wireless devices in the setup area, he investigated further. The tech found that he had stumbled upon an unsecured electronic medical record system and had free access to protected health information (PHI).
A network administrator on a business trip found that his hotel did not provide Internet access. As he sat down to do some offline work that night on his wireless-equipped laptop, he was surprised to see a nice strong signal — coming from the hotel next door.
June 14, 2004
Sprint Selects PatientKeeper apps for healthcare offering
RCR wireless news
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Corp. said it has selected PatientKeeper Inc.'s portfolio of applications as part of its healthcare mobility solutions strategy, which the telecommunications provider announced with PalmOne Inc. earlier this year.
The PatientKeeper portfolio includes its Clinical Results for immediate access to lab results and profiles, Charge Capture to automate the billing process, Mobile Dictation to allow clinicians to record patient notes on mobile devices and send the files directly to transcription services, and ePrescription to provide the ability to write and forward prescriptions to a pharmacy.
June 14, 2004
Wireless Verticals: PatientKeeper Completes Series D Financing Round
Wireless News
PatientKeeper, a provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare, last week completed a $7 million round of funding.
The round was led by a syndicate of venture firms including Whitney & Co., New Enterprise Associates, Frazier Healthcare, Mediphase Venture Partners, Mosaix Ventures, and Pacific Venture Group.
PatientKeeper said the money will be used to meet growing product demand and to expand its mobile computing solutions for hospitals and healthcare.
The company also said it plans to add more staff in the next several months and expects to increase headcount by 50 percent by the end of the year.
June 9, 2004
E-Health Firm PatientKeeper Takes $7M in Insider's Series D Round
Byline By Dow Jones
Venture Wire Professional
PatientKeeper, a provider of healthcare mobile computing software applications, has raised $7 million in an insider's round of Series D funding.
Terms for the deal were set by the firm's largest shareholder, Whitney & Co., which provided $1.9 million towards the latest financing and now holds a stake of between 20% and 25% percent in the company, according to PatientKeeper Chief Executive Paul W. Brient. Other major shareholders in the new round included New Enterprise Associates, which also invested $1.9 million in Series D capital and now holds an approximate 20% stake; and Frazier Healthcare, which invested $1.2 million and holds roughly 18% of the company's shares.
June 9, 2004
PatientKeeper Lands $7 M in Round Four
Boston Business Journal
PatientKeeper Corp. in Brighton has secured $7 million in new fourth-round venture funding to help it expand its health care software and technology product business and hire more people.
A number of venture firms participated in the round, including Whitney & Co. of Stamford, Conn., New Enterprise Associates of Baltimore and California-based Pacific Venture Group.
PatientKeeper makes software, hand-held devices and other products intended to help doctors manage patient information, view clinical results, and write prescriptions.
The company employs 52 people and plans to grow that by about half over the next year to support customer service and sales.
June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper
Wall Street Journal
PatientKeeper, Boston, received $7 million in funding. The round included Whitney & Co., New Enterprise Associates, Frazier Healthcare, Mediphase Venture Partners, Mosaix Ventures and Pacific Venture Group. The funds will be used to meet product demand. PatientKeeper provides mobile software for the health-care industry.
June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Pulls in $7 M in Fourth Round
Mass High Tech
PatientKeeper, a Boston-based provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare, has completed a $7 million Series D round of funding. The round was led by a group of venture capital firms including Whitney & Co., New Enterprise Associates, Frazier Healthcare, Mediphase Venture Partners, Mosaix Ventures, and Pacific Venture Group.
June 8, 2004
Boston-Based PatientKeeper Raises $7 Million in Venture Capital
New England Tech Wire
Boston — Boston-based PatientKeeper, a provider of mobile computing technology for healthcare providers, announced on Tuesday that it has completed a $7 million round of funding. The round was led by a group of venture firms including Whitney & Co., New Enterprise Associates, Frazier Healthcare, Mediphase Venture Partners, Mosaix Ventures, and Pacific Venture Group. The company's wireless products allow doctors to interactively manage patient information, view clinical results, enter diagnoses and billing information, dictate notes, and write prescriptions.
The company said it plans to add more staff in the next several months and expects to increase its headcount by 50% by the end of the year.
June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Raises $7 Million
Mobile Health Data
Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc., a vendor of mobile clinical and integration applications, has raised $7 million in venture capital funding. Venture firms that made investments during the funding round include: Whitney & Co. LLC, Stamford, Conn.; New Enterprise Associates, Menlo Park, Calif.; Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Seattle; Mediphase Venture Partners, Newton, Mass.; Mosaix Ventures, Chicago; and Pacific Venture Group, Irvine, Calif.
June 8, 2004
PatientKeeper Garners $7 M in New Funding
Healthcare IT News
PatientKeeper, a provider of mobile computing solutions for healthcare, today announced completion of a $7 million round of funding. The company plans to increase its staff by 50 percent by the end of the year to support its rapidly growing customer base.
June 3, 2004
PatientKeeper Loads Up On Clients
Healthcare IT World
PatientKeeper nabs more than a half-dozen new clients. PatientKeeper said it has struck deals with seven providers, ranging from large health systems to group practices. Noting "many new contracts" for its mobile computing products, the Boston-based company named Adventist Health System, Berkshire Health Systems, Clinical Practice Management Plan (CPMP) Stony Brook, Digestive Health Systems, Halifax Fish Community Health Systems, Sinai Medical Group Chicago, and The University of Kansas Hospital as new clients. Those facilities will use PatientKeeper technology to push information from existing systems into an array of different mobile applications.
June 2, 2004
Mobile Vendors Win Hearts, Want Minds
Health Data Management
Paul Brient no longer is a missionary. Two years ago, Brient, president and CEO of Brighton, Mass-based PatientKeeper Inc., spent much of his time selling the concept of his company's mobile computing platform and administrative and clinical applications to health care facilities.
June 1, 2004
PatientKeeper Inks New Deals
Mobile Health Data
June 1, 2004 - Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. signed several new contracts for its mobile software during the first five months of 2004.
Provider organizations that have recently signed with the vendor include: Adventist Health System, Berkshire Health System, Halifax Fish Community Health Systems, Sinai Medical Group Chicago and the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City.
June 1, 2004
Medicine On The Move
Wireless Week
Mobile enterprise apps are on call for the medical industry. Although they bring medicine into the digital age, they still face acceptance among doctors.
MOBILE ROI
Applications providers such as PatientKeeper also are seeing a spike in the mobility EKG. PatientKeeper's offerings include a clinical results application that beams lab results to handhelds, as well as applications that record charges for services, record medical notes that can be sent to a transcribing service, and write up electronic prescriptions. Stephen Hau, PatientKeeper's founder and vice president of marketing and business, says the mobile medical market has warmed up significantly in the last 24 months.
May 7, 2004
Mobile Leadership from a Group Practice
Health Data Management
An L.A. practice is bringing together area hospitals to give physicians and nurses mobile and Web-based data access using the PatientKeeper Platform and PatientKeeper mobile healthcare solutions.
May 3, 2004
Granting Wishes
Interviews Berkshire Health Systems
InformationWeek - Healthcare Enterprise
Grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality can help small and rural hospitals buy IT services and equipment, but the $50 million available isn't nearly enough to address the need.
Chuck Podesta, CIO at Berkshire, discusses getting more ROI out of IT systems using PatientKeeper.
March 1, 2004
Wireless To The Rescue
Features CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital
InformationWeek - Healthcare Enterprise
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital is deploying a wireless strategy that lets doctors access and enter information at patients' bedsides via Palm Pilot Tungsten C PDAs running PatientKeeper patient-record software.
February 5, 2004
Christus Physicians Save Time Making Rounds with PatientKeeper's Mobile Software
Health-IT World
Time spent making patient rounds at Christus Health, a four-hospital network in Corpus Christi, Texas, has decreased from up to 15 minutes per patient to less than three minutes since deploying a mobile computing application from PatientKeeper.
January 15, 2004
LanVision, DxCG, PatientKeeper Get Jobs
Health-IT World
Duke University Health System will use PatientKeeper's infrastructure, giving clinicians using mobile devices the ability to pull data from the clinical information system, dictate notes, and access Duke applications. Duke's chief information officer said PatientKeeper would be able to interface with systems from the multiple vendors Duke uses and would be scalable as needs increase.
January 14, 2004
Duke Goes Mobile with PatientKeeper
Mobile Health Data
Duke University Health System will implement software from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. to offer caregivers mobile access to clinical applications across its facilities. The Durham, N.C.-based delivery system plans to use the software to streamline access to its myriad clinical systems.
January 13, 2004
Md. Provider Extends Data Access
Health Data Management
Western Maryland Health System in Cumberland will make its information systems accessible to authorized clinicians via PDAs and the Internet. The two-hospital delivery system uses information systems from Westwood, Mass.-based Medical Information Technology Inc. and will implement the emPOWERnet Web portal from Park City Solutions of Midway, Utah. Further, software from Boston-based PatientKeeper Inc. will enable PDA access to patient demographic and test result data, patient lists, and other information useful when making patient rounds.
January 12, 2004
Duke Health System Goes Mobile with Boston Firm
Triangle Business Journal, North Carolina
Duke University Health System has picked a Boston company to deliver patient and other information to physicians' mobile devices at its Triangle-area hospitals.
January 12, 2004
Duke University Health System Standardizes on PatientKeeper Platform to Enhance Patient Care
HIMSS Industry News
Duke University Health System has selected PatientKeeper(r) to be its core mobile computing infrastructure and to provide a variety of applications to its physicians, including clinical results, dictation, and structured assessment.