FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Walnut Creek, California, November 8, 2010 — Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc. (BLT), a healthcare information technology company founded in 2009 by a pair of MBA graduates from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, announced today that they have been awarded a Qualified Therapeutic Discovery Grant in the amount of $166,500 from the National Institutes of Health.
BLT’s ambulance- and hospital-based decision support software enables (a) collaboration between Emergency Medical Service providers and hospital emergency departments using interoperability tools, (b) intelligent ambulance routing using optimization algorithms, and (c) real-time transfer of pre-hospital care records into the receiving emergency department using a HIPAA-compliant cloud.
According to a November 3rd press release jointly issued by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins:
“The therapeutic discovery project program is targeted to projects that show significant potential to produce new therapies, address unmet medical needs, reduce the long-term growth of health care costs, or advance the goal of curing cancer within the next 30 years. The allocation of the credit also reflects which projects show the greatest potential to create and sustain high-quality, high-paying jobs in the United States and to advance our competitiveness in the fields of life, biological, and medical sciences.”
Jonathon S. Feit, CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies, responded to the announcement: “This foresighted grant will facilitate our progress toward commercial release, allowing us to grow our technical and design teams while exploring service partnerships within the underserved First Response/Critical Care arena. We’re honored that the U.S. government has identified the worthiness of our innovation efforts.”
About Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc.
Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc., the recipient of a 2010 “Therapeutic Discovery” grant from the National Institutes of Health, is a healthcare IT startup founded in 2009 that goes beyond the digitization of prehospital care records, eliminating the use of paper in ambulance transports and offering First Responders situational awareness, robust logistical decision support, and real-time data for regional resource planning. BLT’s MEDIVIEW platform is sold as a cloud-and-client Software-as-a-Service preinstalled on tablet computers, and as a download at www.beyondlucid.com. The system is packed with innovative features designed to make First Response safer, more efficient, and more cost-effective for medics, hospitals, payers, and patients alike—with zero integration engineering required.
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