Beyond Lucid Technologies Connects Unprecedented Number of Fire & EMS Services to Manifest MedEx Through California’s Statewide Data Exchange Framework
Participants joining California’s largest nonprofit health information exchange cover ten (10) counties and comprise the full range of Mobile Medical services, including fire services, public and private emergency response services, non-emergency interfacility transportation, and substance use intervention services
Danville, Calif. (21 May 2025): During EMS Week 2025, and in recognition of Mobile Medical professionals’ ongoing dedication to connecting across the continuum of care, Beyond Lucid Technologies (BLT) today announced that it has partnered with Manifest MedEx (“MX”), California’s largest nonprofit health information exchange and CalHHS Qualified Health Information Organization (QHIO). This interoperability achievement connects fire services, emergency and non-emergency ambulance services, and community paramedicine / mobile integrated health (CP/MIH) programs spanning ten California counties to the statewide Data Exchange Framework (DXF), California’s Data Exchange Framework (DxF). The agencies transmit electronic patient care record (ePCR) data to Manifest MedEex via BLT’s MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange. The ePCR software used by the fire, ambulance and CP/MIH agencies included those from ESO’s (“EHR”), ImageTrend (“Elite”) and Beyond Lucid Technologies (“MEDIVIEW”). BLT has connected agencies to MX within the following counties:
1. Alpine
2. Calaveras
3. Lake
4. Los Angeles
5. Monterey
6. Placer
7. Sacramento
8. San Joaquin
9. Stanislaus
10. Ventura
To date, all of the Mobile Medical services that have successfully interoperated with the DxF have done so via BLT’s MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange, enabling multidirectional communication among responding agencies, transporting agencies, hospitals, social support and community health agencies, and other stakeholders in the patient’s care—during an acute emergencies as well as when addressing Social Drivers of Health (SDOH) to keep patients healthy where they live, across urban, suburban and rural areas. BLT is proud to enable Mobile Medical services to participate in the DxF by connecting them to QHIOs across the state. The agencies, the QHIOs, and BLT share a commitment to addressing language barriers, improving awareness of patients’ special health needs that require need complex intervention, and even gaining awareness of end-of-life medical orders (POLST) through parity with health system partners under the DxF’s legal framework.
Erica Galvez, CEO of Manifest Medex, said: “Connecting more EMS providers, fire agencies and public health providers to our statewide qualified health information organization is an important step in bridging critical health data gaps in California’s healthcare ecosystem. The information these first responders and public health providers collect is critical for other providers – both at the hospital and after discharge. We look forward to working with Beyond Lucid to accelerate the expansion of real-time health data exchange across California to include more of these providers who play such a key role in the health and wellbeing of Californians.”
According to Capt. Kevin Meineke of the South San Joaquin County Fire Authority, which uses the EHR from ESO Solutions: "The South San Joaquin County Fire Authority is proud to be the first public safety agency to connect to the California Data Exchange Framework by way of Manifest Medex, California’s largest health information exchange and a QHIO. We look forward to the collaboration and prospect of more expedient and comprehensive patient care thanks to the data sharing capabilities of this new expansive system. The prospect of accessing health information on scene during an incident would exponentially impact patient care in a positive way, helping with treatment decisions and learning after an incident, to understand how those treatments affected the patient. Closing the loop for our line staff will show them how their care on-scene helped stabilize patients en route to a higher level of care in the hospital setting."
According to Willie Sapeta, Fire Chief of Lake County Fire Protection District, which uses the ImageTrend Elite ePCR: “These are monumental steps for my agency now and as we proceed to the future of EMS. This allows the LCFPD to better track and securely share patients’ complete medical histories, more and more health care providers are participating in health information exchange (HIE). HIE helps facilitate coordinated patient care, reduce duplicative treatments and avoid costly mistakes. This practice is growing among hospital and pre-hospital health providers because the need for HIE is clear and the HIE benefits are significant. These are a few examples of HIE benefits that we identified:
1. Improve patient safety by reducing medication and medical errors.
2. Increase efficiency by eliminating unnecessary paperwork and handling.
3. Provide caregivers with clinical decision support tools for more effective care and treatment.
4. Eliminate redundant or unnecessary testing.
5. Improve public health reporting and monitoring.
6. Engage healthcare consumers regarding their own personal health information.
7. Improve healthcare quality and outcomes.
8. Reduce health related costs.
Jonathon Feit, Co-Founder & CEO of Beyond Lucid Technologies, said: “Recent weather-related tragedies in California and around the U.S. have spotlit the question of what Mobile Medical professionals know (and don’t know) while at the patient’s side; and what they might do differently if they knew more when seconds count. While some suggest that interoperability is a passing fad, or too complex to enable any ambulance, fire or community paramedicine service to share data with any hospital, the first agencies to sign onto the DxF are proving that they can keep communities safe by sharing patient care insights with clinical partners in real-time. BLT is honored to partner with California largest HIE to offer a data pipe through which those insights can flow.”
About BEYOND LUCID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Beyond Lucid Technologies develops software to inform Mobile Medical Professionals about patients’ needs even before they arrive on-scene, then empower them to share insights across the care continuum in real-time. Our Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) software is patented, and packed with innovations that make Fire, EMS, Non-Emergency/Inter-Facility Medical Transport, Critical Care (Ground & Air), and Community Paramedicine / Mobile Integrated Health (CP/MIH) safer, more efficient and more cost-effective. Critical focal areas include post-crash care, intervening in the cycle of substance use disorders, and ensuring that patients’ end-of-life wishes and special health needs are accessible to Responders while they are at the patient’s side. We have been called “Silicon Valley’s Emergency Medical Technology Experts,” and serve Mobile Medical agencies across the U.S., including Puerto Rico & Guam. Our “prehospital pipes” connect more Mobile Medical services to hospitals and public health information exchanges than any other company. Winner of the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award for EMS Communications Platform, and awards from the Journal of EMS and the EMS World. Join BLT in realizing a vision of Mobile Medical interoperability at BeyondLucid.com.
CONTACT:
Jonathon Feit, Co-Founder & CEO
Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc.
(650) 648-3727
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