EmOpti Aims to Help Patients in ER Get Seen by Doctors More Quickly
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“Emergency medicine is still an industry that essentially delivers lousy service for really high cost,” says Barthell, a doctor who worked in the ER for more than two decades before leaving his clinical practice in 2008 to focus full-time on healthcare technology development. His latest venture is EmOpti, a Brookfield, WI-based startup that aims to shorten emergency room wait times and hospital stays by having offsite physicians examine some patients over a video feed upon arrival. [But] I think they appreciate having some extra help.” At Aurora, having doctors and physician assistants enter orders during or just after video consults with certain patients who come to the ER has shortened their hospital stays by about 45 minutes on average, Coogan says. Mike Rodgers, Aurora’s director of strategic innovation, says under the typical ER triage model, some patients end up walking out because they don’t feel it’s worth the wait to see a doctor. The startup has also worked with Redox to set up interfaces for EmOpti customers who use other EHR vendors’ software; one example is MedStar Health in Washington, D.C., which uses Kansas City, MO-based Cerner’s (NASDAQ: CERN) record-keeping tools.
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