Walnut Creek, CA, January 30, 2012 – Today it was announced by Beyond Lucid Technologies (www.beyondlucid.com) has been selected as 1 of 8 finalist companies presenting in the new Health Technologies category at the 4th Annual SXSW Accelerator, part of the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. On March 12, Beyond Lucid Technologies’ co-founders Jonathon Feit, CEO, and Christian Witt, CTO/CFO, will present the company’s flagship product – MediView™ – to a crowd of technologists, investors, entrepreneurs and journalists.
MediView™ is a communications platform designed for use in emergency contexts by First Responders and hospitals. Linking pre-hospital caregivers like ambulance medics to hospital emergency departments, MediView delivers relevant data about the patient even before the patient arrives, thereby maximizing the time spent on care while reducing operational inefficiencies. Typically, in the moments after arriving at a hospital, assessments are re-run, insurance data is re-gathered, and time-to-care is extended unnecessarily. But with MediView™, which is compliant with patient confidentiality and health care record standards, this valuable information can be seamlessly accessed inside the hospital.
“We’re thrilled that we’re the only responder-focused technology selected by SXSW," say Jonathon Feit, Co-Founder & CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies. “For First Responders, often the forgotten heroes of emergency medicine, we think this recognition is a really big deal. It is our company's mission and passion to empower these brave souls, make their lives easier and safer, and lessen the burden of budget cuts their agencies are facing each day by providing economical technology that puts into one device GPS for intelligent routing, multimedia, speech recognition for data entry, connectivity, and time-stamping. With MediView™ they can focus on their life-saving work, not paperwork.”
"Until their lives are personally impacted by a disaster, most people don't realize how much of First Response depends on the ability to quickly and accurately collect and relay information – but even in 2012, most medics in the U.S. and abroad lack the tools to do so safely, reliably, and efficiently,” said Christian Witt, Co-Founder & CFO/CTO of Beyond Lucid Technologies. “Our team's goal is to bridge the data chasm that persists between First Responders and the hospitals, clinics, senior care facilities, industrial zones, and other places they serve, so that in an emergency, data can flow where it needs to."
For more details or to speak to Jonathon Feit, please contact Jordan Goldstein, Head of Stakeholder Communications, at Jordan.Goldstein@beyondlucid.com.
About Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc.
Beyond Lucid Technologies, the recipient of a 2010 "Therapeutic Discovery" grant from the National Institutes of Health, is a healthcare IT startup that goes beyond the digitization of prehospital care records, to offer First Responders situational awareness, robust logistical decision support functions, and real-time information for regional resource planning. BLT's MediView™ software platform is a cloud-and-client software-as-a-service (SaaS) packed with innovative features designed to make First Response safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective. The software comes pre-installed on a variety of hardware platforms, and is also available for download. Zero hospital integration engineering is required for MediView™ to begin delivering value—starting with an elimination of the use of paper to document patients' conditions in a prehospital context. More information is available at www.beyondlucid.com.
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