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Curamei Technologies Launches Platform Enabling Patients to Take Charge of Their Health Data

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. /ScoopCloud/ -- The new Curamei platform seeks to improve quality of care by putting patients at the center of the exchange of health data with providers, overcoming the challenges of fragmentation. Almost universally, receiving high-quality affordable healthcare is recognized as an expensive and inconvenient affair.

For overworked healthcare providers, it is incredibly difficult to get the time to keep track of patients and organize care plans that work to enhance patient lifestyles. For those facing chronic health issues, the situation is even more dire as different health specialists and care organizations often do not collaborate well to create the most effective treatment plans. At the root of these quality issues are the challenges of collecting health data.

The administrative burdens of documenting care and inconvenient methods of accessing health data have massively contributed to a crisis of physician burnout that has greatly increased costs across the industry. While providers struggle to access medical records, it is no wonder that digital health products like smart watches and biometric trackers have been greatly underused. The fact of the matter is that for a provider who barely has time to see the patient, there is not enough time to go through and learn how to analyze data from these digital health products to enhance care.

Aditya Singh, co-founder of Curamei Technologies, comments, "We see these issues in the context of a great debate over how consumers should have control over their own data. In a field as sensitive as healthcare, why should patients not have direct access to and the ability to directly share their own health data? As such, we set out to create the ideal tool for patients to take control of their health data."

Through the Curamei platform, patient users have the ability to organize various types of health data from patient portals, digital health products, and physical documents. With this capability, patients can then share directly with providers, which allows care providers to bypass obstacles to data access while also receiving valuable health information in an easily digestible format.

"As we work to expand functionality and support for different sources of data, we will also make a special effort to ensure that Curamei can be applied to improving the quality of care for patients of all income levels," elaborates Singh. "Through community health and social care organization partnerships, we will use Curamei as a tool for care collaboration and tackling issues of waste in healthcare resources."

Learn more about company solutions at: https://curameitech.com/why-curamei

About Curamei

Curamei is a platform which empowers patients with the tools to aggregate their health data and share it with care providers. Through presenting information in an easily digestible format and facilitating intuitive control of data exchange, the platform will alleviate the challenges of poor health industry interoperability while serving as a tool for facilitating care collaboration between various providers, social care, community health, and public health organizations.

For any additional questions, feel free to contact Director and co-founder Aditya Singh at aditya.singh@curameitech.com or at https://curameitech.com/contact-us

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The new Curamei platform seeks to improve quality of care by putting patients at the center of the exchange of health data with providers, overcoming the challenges of fragmentation. Almost universally, receiving high-quality affordable healthcare is recognized as an expensive and inconvenient affair.

Related link: https://curameitech.com/

Simprints Launches 2nd Generation of their SecuGen Based Fingerprint Scanner, ‘Vero 2.0,’ to Improve Coverage of Vaccines and other Global Health Interventions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- Simprints, a Cambridge, UK-based biometrics company, develops Vero 2.0, an evolution of their original Vero scanner, based on SecuGen's fingerprint module, to improve the distribution of healthcare, microfinance, and aid to the poor around the world.

Simprints is a nonprofit technology company that develops and deploys biometric technology uniquely for global health and development contexts. Traditional "Western" biometric technology is less effective in such contexts, where the environment in which people live means that they are more likely to have scarred or worn fingerprints. In contrast, Simprints built their system to be highly accurate with these kinds of challenging biometrics. Simprints' solution integrates with existing mobile tools used by international NGOs and government ministries to verify that their services are reaching the intended beneficiaries. To date, the organization has helped more than 12 partners reach over 387,000 people across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The development of Vero 2.0 was kickstarted by a partnership with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, and NEC to boost immunization coverage worldwide. Leveraging technology from Arm and SecuGen, Vero 2.0 has the following features: Near-Field Communications (NFC) to facilitate a seamless, wireless Bluetooth pairing with a mobile device; a redesigned printed circuit board (PCB) powered by the ARM Cortex-M0 32-bit MCU that enables streamlined manufacture; configurable LED colors for increased cultural acceptability and accessibility for the color-blind; fast image-transfer from scanner to mobile and backend storage for robust matching capabilities: and SecuGen's high-resolution fingerprint sensor module capable of achieving up to 1,700 DPI for detailed image capture. Simprints is working with local manufacturer, Prima Electronic Services, to build 1,400 units for immediate use in healthcare projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

An improvement on its predecessor, Vero 2.0 is highly accurate, durable, wireless, water- and dust-proof, and ergonomic for health workers in low-resource areas. This development will bring Simprints and its partners one step closer to accurately verifying the identities of patients from 1 year old and above, in order to ensure that every single person is reached with life-saving medical care.

"Simprints helps us save time and labor. We like working with the scanner because it's easier to identify patients," says a community research assistant in Malawi.

"Simprints makes our workflow flawless. We had challenges before, like supply bottlenecks. We'd end up giving too many shoes, only to realize not too many of these children actually exist. So, we tied our distribution to a fingerprint," says the leader of a local health organization in Kenya.

Jeff Brown, SecuGen's VP of Sales added, "We were delighted to support Simprints to develop a product that met their specifications while keeping the costs down. We are excited to have our fingerprint technology play a part in projects involving low resource settings where the lives of so many can benefit."

"Simprints is an impressive group of people with an equally impressive dedication to doing good in the world," stated Won Lee, SecuGen's CEO. "It is a privilege to work with them to bring such an important product to fruition."

Nick Russel, Chairman of Prima Electronic Services, said, "Manufacturing a product that has such a positive impact on communities is something the team here at Prima are very proud to be involved with."

About Simprints

Simprints ( https://www.simprints.com/ ) is a nonprofit tech company whose mission is to transform the way the world fights poverty. Simprints builds technology to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them the most. Simprints' biometric hardware and software have been used to accurately link tens of thousands of people to their digital records and streamline the delivery of much-needed services in healthcare, microfinance, and aid distribution.

About SecuGen

SecuGen Corporation ( https://secugen.com/ ) is the world's leading provider of advanced, optical fingerprint recognition technology, products, tools and platforms for physical and information security. SecuGen designs and develops FBI-certified fingerprint readers and OEM components, developer kits and software, including NIST/MINEX-compliant algorithms.

For over 20 years, SecuGen has been a driving force committed to delivering high quality, innovative, rugged, and price-performing products for a wide variety of applications such as insurance and banking, medical and health care, point of sale, logical and physical access control, mobile devices, AFIS and law enforcement, national ID, voter registration, SIM card authentication, fleet management, and many more.

SecuGen products are used by world-leading financial, medical, government, educational and corporate institutions and are sold through an extensive partner network of reseller partners including original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and system integrators in North America, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

SecuGen(R) is a registered trademark of SecuGen Corp. in the United States and other countries.

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Simprints, a Cambridge, UK-based biometrics company, develops Vero 2.0, an evolution of their original Vero scanner, based on SecuGen's fingerprint module, to improve the distribution of healthcare, microfinance, and aid to the poor around the world.

Related link: https://secugen.com/

Knapsack Health is urging all US citizens to keep their health histories printed out and with them at all times during the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic

PHOENIX, Ariz. /ScoopCloud/ -- The COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic is bringing into focus just how critical it is for individuals to have their health information readily available. The Knapsack Health Application helps users navigate their input in order to collect all pertinent medical information: Doctors, Medical/Disease History, Surgical History, Medications, Allergies, Immunizations, Infectious Disease and Family/Social History.

The application also gives the user the ability to upload forms and documentation necessary in case of an emergency, i.e. Medical Power of Attorney, Primary and Secondary insurance and Medical Consent.

Founder and CEO Charles Spannagel states, "We are dealing with a national emergency that calls for citizens to prepare themselves and be ready if/when they need medical care. Having your health history available and with you always will expedite treatment."

He added, "Blood type, Medications, Allergies are examples of the information that can drastically affect a patient's outcome. Knapsack gives the patients the ability to become a vital member of their own care team."

Knapsack Health's core belief is to ensure the patient is at the center of their healthcare journey.

Learn more at: https://knapsackhealth.com/

MEDIA CONTACT:
Charles Spannagel
Knapsack Health
cspannagel@knapsackhealth.com
480-310-0981

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The COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic is bringing into focus just how critical it is for individuals to have their health information readily available. The Knapsack Health Application helps users navigate their input in order to collect all pertinent medical information: Doctors, Medical/Disease History, Surgical History, Medications, Allergies, Immunizations, Infectious Disease and Family/Social History.

Related link: https://knapsackhealth.com/

Delta Care Rx Now Interfaces with HEALTHCAREfirst Electronic Health Records

PITTSBURGH, Pa. /ScoopCloud/ -- Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces an exciting interface with HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS, Surveys and advanced analytics.

The partnership enables Delta Care Rx Hospice pharmacy solutions to interface effortlessly with the HEALTHCAREfirst comprehensive electronic health records, or EHR, systems, including firstHOSPICE and firstHOMECARE.

"Delta Care Rx enjoys a growing segment of users within our customer base," says J. Kevin Porter, CEO of HEALTHCAREfirst, citing a recent, internal survey of clients. "This partnership strategically provides the interface those hospice clients need to create greater ease in workflow."

Thanks to the interface, slated for early April, clinicians will be able to enhance workflow efficiency from a single point of demographic data entry in the EHR, which will then flow electronically to Delta Care Rx.

For example, when a nurse inputs patient information into the HEALTHCAREfirst EHR, it appears in Delta Care Rx's e-tools automatically. The automatic transfer of vital information saves valuable time, reduces error, and improves patient care by reducing the effort required to ensure patients receive medications needed for quality outcomes.

In the future, a pharmaceutical interface will make it possible to order medications directly from the EHR. Users will also have the option of utilizing Delta Care Rx's user-friendly durable medical equipment (DME) management software and provider network. Again, as patient demographic information proves readily available in the e-tools software suite, there's no task repetition. Delta Care Rx pharmacy and DME orders can be placed from any digital device, including smart phones. There is no additional cost to HEALTHCAREfirst users who choose to add this interface.

"Managing pharmacy, alongside DME inside the same platform, definitely saves time and capital," says Drew Mihalyo, president and COO at Delta Care Rx. "This interface saves duplication of labor across the board for clients who already use a very powerful product via HEALTHCAREfirst."

Delta Care Rx partners with EHR vendors, like HEALTHCAREfirst, within the hospice industry to provide EHR clients with easy to use, innovative interfaces to enhance clinical efficiency and reduce operating costs.

About Delta Care Rx:

Delta Care Rx - http://www.deltacarerx.com - transforms and improves the hospice pharmacy industry through business transparency, innovation, extreme customer service, and the maintenance of vital community pharmacy relationships. As a pharmacist owned, privately held provider, Delta Care Rx sets the industry benchmark for pharmacy benefit management, creative prescription mail order, on-demand pharmacist services, and hospice tailored e-Prescribing. Additionally, Delta Care Rx offers electronic tools, including cutting-edge telemedicine technology to improve the quality of palliative patient care during serious illness or at end of life, and simplifies essential workflow/ordering processes within hospice settings.

About HEALTHCAREfirst:

HEALTHCAREfirst - http://www.healthcarefirst.com/ - provides web-based technologies and services to improve business and clinical operations for over four thousand home health and hospice providers across the United States. Based in Springfield, MO, and one of the fastest growing providers of its kind, the company provides, in any combination, agency and clinical management software; outsourced revenue cycle management services including billing, coding and home health Outcome and Assessment Information Set, or OASIS, Review; CAHPS surveys; and advanced analytics. HEALTHCAREfirst's breadth of solutions offers agencies a single source to improve patient care, create operational efficiencies, increase profitability and simplify CMS compliance. With HEALTHCAREfirst, agencies can focus on patients instead of paperwork.

Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces an exciting interface with HEALTHCAREfirst, a leading provider of web-based home health and hospice software, billing and coding services, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems, or CAHPS, Surveys and advanced analytics.

Related link: http://www.deltacarerx.com/

Delta Care Rx Now Integrates with Suncoast Electronic Medical Records

PITTSBURGH, Pa. /ScoopCloud/ -- Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces a robust integration with Suncoast by Complia Health, a leading global provider of home health care and hospice software solutions.

The Delta Care Rx hospice pharmacy benefits management (PBM) solution joins a growing list of other vendors which integrate effortlessly with the Suncoast industry standard electronic medical records (EMR) system. Now, clients with the Suncoast EMR are able to enhance efficiencies with a single point of data entry which will then flow electronically to Delta Care Rx.

"The integration allows an increased number of our clients to use the additional functionality of the software," says Nate Truitt, general manager of Suncoast by Complia Health. "We want to make certain our clients have access to all the software options available to them."

The integration:
* increases efficiency, saving time and costs
* eliminates redundancy of any data entry
* improves the quality of patient care
* provides a single point of entry for patient demographics and medication orders
* complements Delta Care Rx's proprietary and easy-to-use e-Tools suite of software.

The integration is inclusive of industry tailored e-Prescribing and durable medical equipment (DME) order management that works on any digital device, including smart phones.

A leading PBM, Delta Care Rx partners with top EMR vendors - like Suncoast by Complia - to provide innovative integration solutions which ultimately enhance clinical efficiency and dramatically reduce costs for hospice organizations.

According to David Clapp, national director of business development at Delta Care Rx, "We appreciate the opportunity to partner with quality providers like Suncoast by Complia. Together, we make it possible for our mutual clients to ensure patient quality of care across the care continuum."

Delta Care Rx is a leading sponsor for the second annual Complia Health CARE User Conference, Monday, Feb. 19, through Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 at the Marriott Orlando World Center, Orlando, Florida.

Attendees will network with peers in post-acute, home health, hospice and palliative care organizations, while simultaneously learning from a broad variety of industry experts and thought leaders, such as Delta Care Rx COO Drew Mihalyo, who will be featured in Thursday's Partner Showcase.

About Delta Care Rx:
Delta Care Rx - http://www.deltacarerx.com - transforms and improves the hospice pharmacy industry through business transparency, innovation, extreme customer service, and the maintenance of vital community-pharmacy relationships. As a pharmacist owned, privately held provider, Delta Care Rx sets the industry benchmark for pharmacy benefit management, mail order pharmacy options, on-demand pharmacist services, and hospice tailored electronic prescribing. Additionally, Delta Care Rx offers electronic tools, including cutting edge telemedicine technology, to improve the quality of patient care and simplify essential workflow and ordering processes within hospice settings.

About Complia Health:
Complia Health is a leading global provider of technology and expertise for the long-term and post-acute care market. Nearly 3,000 home health, residential, community care, and hospice organizations count on Complia Health for the clinical, operational, and financial solutions required to profitability deliver quality care. Complia Health's innovative products-including Procura, ContinuLink, Suncoast, Igea, and Progresa-are supported by a team of global health and technology experts located in the United States, Canada, and Australia. For more information, visit http://www.compliahealth.com/.

Delta Care Rx, a leading pharmaceutical innovator in end of life care, announces a robust integration with Suncoast by Complia Health, a leading global provider of home health care and hospice software solutions.

Related link: http://www.deltacarerx.com/