Mobile Heartbeat, a Waltham, Mass.-based mobile clinical app company, signed an agreement with Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System to implement its CURE app in all four of the network's hospitals.
CURE, which stands for Clinical Urgent Response, is a clinical tool that provides a smartphone connection to an EHR and allows users to take photographs and immediately upload them to the cloud rather than saving them on the device, complying with HIPAA. Additionally, the agreement with Yale New Haven entails implementing more than 4,000 licenses of the app, facilitating easier communication between the hospitals' physicians.
"Adoption has been driven by the flexibility of the platform, such as the ability to use your own Android or iPhone device, integration with our EMR and new features added to the platform when we need it," said Allen Hsiao, CMIO and associate professor of pediatrics and of emergency medicine at Yale New Haven Health System.