BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange: Speed dating for startups and hospitals

careinnovators  | October 19, 2011  -  Leave a Comment

As an early stage start-up, it’s not always easy to find an established firm willing to test the new product.  BluePrint Healthcare IT now offers one solution to start-ups targeting health care providers.  The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series features regional events where healthcare providers are matched up with early stage but deployment-ready innovative companies through “Speed Dating” sessions to establish pilot programs in alignment with the current innovation initiatives of HHS and ONC. Healthcare providers and emerging vendors can share their needs and ideas—hopefully leading to pilot programs and test-bed opportunities supporting the deployment of innovative and new healthcare technology solutions. The series is currently accepting participation from Mid-West hospitals and interested sponsors. The West Coast Summit, which already has three leading healthcare systems confirmed, is accepting applications from innovation focused Hospitals, Innovators and Sponsors.

Read past the break to learn how to apply!

On November 29, the Mid-West Innovation Exchange Summit will also be piloting for the very first time a “virtual” participant that will communicate with the Innovators using a tablet PC and a real-time remote communication application transported to each Innovator “pod” by an event facilitator. The virtual participant concept was conceived as a way to overcome logistical and scheduling issues for interested organizations as well as to enhance the scalability of the Summit series.

BluePrint Healthcare IT was founded in 2003 to provide security, privacy, compliance and risk management services to hospitals and healthcare systems. Since the enactment of HITECH, BluePrint has aligned its services and products to “accelerate meaningful use and health information exchange,” which now forms its central mission. In 2010 BluePrint launched Meaningful Use and HIE consulting services in addition to HIE Secure and EMR Secure, to expand beyond hospitals into integrated delivery network (IDN), regional, and state health information exchange. Building on its knowledge of hospital information workflows, BluePrint developed software products supporting security, compliance, information systems management and bed management.

The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series website provides more information on participation options for each event and its Advisory Board. Interested hospital and health IT consumer organizations looking to participate in the Mid-West or West Coast Summits should contact Mike Squires at mike.squires [at] blueprinthit [dot] com or Pam Kaur at pam.kaur [at] blueprinthit [dot] com. The BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series is produced in collaboration with HIMSS.

Source: BluePrint Health IT Innovation Exchange Summit Series