In 2011, two millennials began working on an idea for a technology company.
Damon Ramsey, MD, and Shawn Jung were in their early twenties and working out of Dr. Ramsey's uncle's basement when they began the groundwork for InputHealth, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based IT company. Two years later, millennial Puneet Seth, MD, joined their team.
"We built this company from the ground up to address a massive oversight in the existing paradigm of electronic medical records — that the patient does not exist in any meaningful way," Dr. Ramsey, who now serves as InputHealth's CEO, told Canadian Healthcare Technology. "From there came a fundamental shift in approach: Every patient encounter becomes a data capture opportunity where that data is generated by the patient themselves."
Together, Dr. Ramsey, Mr. Jung (who's now CTO) and Dr. Seth (who's now CMO) created a modular patient engagement system. After years of implementing new modules, InputHealth's clients were asking for something more: a full-blown EHR system. The team listened and created a forward-looking EHR, which it calls a "collaborative health record," or CHR.
"Collaborative means that the patient and the clinician and the entire healthcare team work together to deliver care," said Dr. Seth.
InputHealth's CHR can gather data from various sources and puts them together to create meaningful results. For example, a patient with a mood disorder and their spouse may each take a questionnaire. The CHR can then sort out the most important aspects of the questionnaires and provide a more complete analysis.
Numerous clinics in the U.S. and Canada — including Mayo Clinic's Jacksonville, Fla. campus and Vancouver-based University of British Columbia's Student Health Service — have adopted InputHealth's modules.