Lowdown: Akido Labs is looking for a full stack web developer to join an organization with nation-wide hospital access paired with a team of seasoned technologists and healthcare executives to revolutionize how data is used in healthcare.Akido Labs is a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization built out of Keck Medicine’s Digital Health Lab and backed by Y Combinator. Health care has...
I had been introduced to Apervita a little while back, and while I found it intriguing, it didn't solve the problem I was looking to solve. From my perspective, the biggest problem in healthcare right now is the lack of interoperability between systems -- data within a hospital is frankly rather locked up, inaccessible by reasonable means. This holds back a TON of much needed innovation in the space.
If Apertiva's platform is a means for spurring innovation, then I'm all for it. My prediction is that health data access will hold them back, until Akido is in every hospital across the country ;)
Akido does make it much much easier for them to say OK, though :). While the API makes it far easier on developers, the hospital/clinic gets a far more secure means of transmitting data to vendors, as well as very fine grained control over who has access to which data, and detailed logs of every request.
To clarify a bit, a hospital or clinic wouldn't really "hire" us -- Akido is software that's implemented on-site or in the cloud, and is supported remotely.
We are building relationships with health systems across the country, but we can't remove the need for you to talk to them. What Akido does is make integration a non-issue - we turn integration into 'plug n play' from the developer's and hospital's perspective. What this means for you is that your sale to the hospital or clinic decision maker becomes far easier!
Please do note that the health system maintains all control over who has access to data -- this is VERY sensitive data, and it's extremely important that access is tightly controlled, logged, and auditable. (Akido handles all of that for the hospital)
At this point in time, we're focused more on software/device vendor integrations into healthcare systems. However, this strategy is aimed at eventually making personal health records a reality.
With blue button, health providers weren't incentivized to adopt - it's just not a high priority for health systems right now. However, if we could solve the integration problem for health systems while paving the way towards personal health records incentive won't be an issue. The FHIR specs are the latest step in the right direction! (We're big proponents of FHIR)
Akido holds real promise to enable personal health records in the near future -- be on the look out!
Make sense?
Please shoot me an email at [email protected] -- happy to talk more about it.
On one hand, Akido is a technology + service that offloads the entire integration process for application vendors (analytics, patient engagement, scheduling, etc!), lab/diagnostics vendors, and connected hardware vendors.
On the other hand, hospitals have a solution for integration that provides more granular control over their data, and a far smoother integration process.
The Akido API was influenced by our experience as directors of Univ. Southern California's D-Health digital health lab, where we constantly work with physicians and admins to create better health IT software.
We saw that real innovation and improvement in health IT is prevented by an extremely laborious and difficult "integration" process. We built Akido to make sure it was the last solution to ever had to get "integrated"!
YES - it's a real pain to deal with all the different interfaces and techniques required to obtain the data that you need.
However, as part of implementing Akido, we handle all of the integration and maintenance for you (it's our expertise ;) )
We can implement on an on-site Virtual Machine, or as a cloud implementation (our preference, of course).
Our cost structure is flexible at the moment (so we should talk), but it's worth saying that we're a low-cost solution!
https://www.akidolabs.com/hospitals
Akido handles all aspects of integration for you -- we essentially offload the whole process! We can accept data from just about any interface - HL7 feed, CSV over SFTP, CCD, etc.
Please feel free to shoot me a note at [email protected] to set up a time to chat!!
Akido doesn't actually replace anything - it's an API layer that lives above any electronic health record (EHR) system, and provides a far more developer-friendly and secure means for accessing data than the current state.
Feel free to check out our docs to see what you can do with less than 10 lines of code!
You're absolutely right that EHR's have a whole host of problems that could be solved by smart app developers! There's a ton of opportunity unlocked by providing safe and developer friendly access to health data.