Innovative Communication Solution Wins Health Care Challenge

Cleveland Clinic Innovations selected Twiage, a novel prehospital communication device that enables EDs to triage incoming ambulances, as the winner of its New Ventures Health Care Challenge at the 2015 Medical Innovation Summit in Cleveland.     YiDing Yu, MD, the founder and CMO of Twiage, said a first responder can use her award-winning device to record video of stroke symptoms, which can be quickly relayed to on-call neurologists or telestroke programs.    “By advancing the prehospital timeline, Twiage allows hospitals to shave crucial minutes off hospital metrics, such as door-to-CT scanner and door-to-tPA times for stroke,” she said at the summit.   Paramedics and EMTs also can use Twiage's HIPAA-compliant smartphone app to capture ECGs for heart attacks and trauma scenes through photos and to record digital voice memos. Providing live patient data and GPS-tracked ETA for all incoming ambulances allows hospitals to accelerate treatment while improving performance measures, patient outcomes, and reducing costs, according to a Twiage press release.   For more info, visit http://www.twiagemed.com/. Tags: emergency medicine, emergency department, twiage, HIPAA, health care, innovationPublished: 11/10/2015 8:05:00 AM
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