Electronic Health Reporter

In this series, we are featuring some of the thousands of vendors who will be participating in the HIMSS15 conference and trade show. Through it, we hope to offer readers a closer look at some of the solution providers who will either be in attendance – with a booth showcasing and displaying key products and offerings – or that will have a presence of some kind at the show – key executives in attendance or presenting, for example.

Hopefully this series will give you a bit more useful information about the companies that help make this event, and the industry as a whole, so exciting.

Elevator Pitch

AirStrip enables transformational and lasting improvements in healthcare delivery by creating innovative technology for caregivers to collaborate and care for their patients. AirStrip provides a complete, vendor and data source-agnostic, enterprise-wide mobile interoperability platform and application that advance care collaboration and serves as a catalyst for health system innovation. With deep clinical expertise and strong roots in mobile technology and data integration, AirStrip is empowering leading health systems globally as the industry evolves at a rapid pace.

Founder’s Story

Dr. Cameron Powell and Trey Moore are innovators in the field of mobile patient monitoring, having developed a technology platform and applications that address the many challenges facing modern healthcare.  The two initially met in their Texas church’s parking lot, which led to the creation of AirStrip with co-founder Gene Powell more than a decade ago. Moore boasts an extensive background that includes application development, team leadership and building scalable business applications for both the desktop and handheld platforms, with a focus on creating innovative and compelling user interfaces.  Dr. Powell, an obstetrician by training, stopped practicing in 2008 to devote himself full-time to AirStrip. Both remain active members of the AirStrip leadership team, with Dr. Powell serving as chief medical officer and Moore the chief technical officer. Through AirStrip, Dr. Cameron Powell and Trey Moore have delivered on their vision of making the complexities of healthcare technology simpler to navigate than ever before, making patient data accessible regardless of time or location and enabling faster and more informed care decisions, which can lead to improved patient outcomes.

Market Opportunity

Healthcare is changing, growing in complexity like never before. New clinical challenges, new regulations, new financial pressures and new business models. AirStrip supports healthcare providers in meeting those challenges by using the power of interoperable mobility, erasing the boundaries that separate clinicians from each other and from their patients. AirStrip ONE can empower clinicians to make informed patient care decisions instantly—whenever they need to, wherever they are. That changes everything: for physicians, for patients, and for healthcare organizations. AirStrip puts the power to transform care in your hands.

Services Offered

AirStrip delivers solutions and services that address today’s most pressing healthcare challenges: increasing financial and regulatory pressures; demands for greater accountability and the need to take on risk; expanding patient populations; and the need to be more agile. By enabling care collaboration and driving innovation, the AirStrip ONE enterprise interoperability platform can improve care quality and timeliness, increase patient and clinician satisfaction, enhance financial performance, and reduce risk. AirStrip helps providers meet those challenges with mobility solutions that can transform the way they deliver care. The AirStrip ONE platform and application are FDA-cleared, bringing live, diagnostic-quality clinical data to a variety of mobile and fixed devices, empowering clinicians to:

• Expedite decision-making by enabling them to access, interpret, and respond to clinically relevant patient health data rapidly—anytime, anywhere
• Improve quality of care by dramatically enhancing their ability to assess, monitor, and direct care for every patient
• Facilitate collaboration and care coordination across the continuum of care—from outpatient and inpatient to community, clinic, and home
• Increase flexibility, efficiency and accountability by enabling connectivity with patients and members of the care team at any time, no matter where they are

Problems Solved

AirStrip ONE enables clinicians to gain a clear, complete picture of patient health and to take immediate, appropriate action right from their mobile devices. This can support improvements in clinical decision-making, care coordination, and workflow efficiency that can positively impact both patient outcomes and institutional performance. AirStrip helps health systems innovate while allowing them to efficiently manage operating budgets. AirStrip solutions and services can enable providers to:

• Reduce care delivery costs while improving the patient experience and outcomes through more proactive and better-coordinated care
• Optimize workflows across the healthcare enterprise at every step of the care continuum, from outpatient and inpatient to community, clinic, and home
• Improve financial performance and accelerate ROI by expanding capacity and access to care, and opening the door to new revenue opportunities
• Mitigate risk by improving quality of care and patient safety, reducing readmissions, and supporting accountable care initiatives
• Attract top talent by offering clinicians the most advanced mobile care environment, maximizing clinician satisfaction
• Help substantiate and improve regulatory compliance, including privacy concerns and Meaningful Use performance and reimbursement

Booth Number

#4421

Key Executives at Conference

• Alan Portela, CEO
• Cameron Powell, M.D., co-founder/chief medical officer
• Matt Patterson M.D., president

Clients Served

The following are just some of the forward-looking health systems that have chosen AirStrip as their strategic mobility partner. Clients include Dignity Health, St. Joseph Health, Alegent Creighton Health, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Texas Health Resources, Tenet Healthcare and Ardent Health Services, among others.

Unique Selling Proposition

AirStrip helps health systems achieve interoperability with vendor- and data-agnostic mobile technology solutions for doctors, nurses, and other caregivers that seamlessly provide the engagement, collaboration, and insight required to care for others anytime, anywhere. AirStrip is the trusted champion for complete interoperability across all sources of health information throughout the continuum of care.

Founded

AirStrip was founded in 2004 in San Antonio, Texas by Cameron Powell, MD, Trey Moore and Gene Powell.

Number of full-time employees

AirStrip is led by an exceptional team of experienced technology, medical, and business professionals guided by a shared vision to transform healthcare. AirStrip currently has 109 full time employees.

Headquarters

San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in La Jolla, California, metro Chicago and the Nashville area.

Booth Bait (Swag) Offered

AirStrip will be donating a $1 for every badge scanned at the AirStrip HIMSS booth to a local Chicago charity. Also AirStrip is running a #HIMSS15 giveaway on Twitter. Follow @AirStripmHealth to learn more – details are coming soon.

Number of Previous HIMSS Conference Appearances

2015 will mark the eighth consecutive year that AirStrip has participated at HIMSS.

Specific Reason for Attendance

As a longtime attendee and corporate member, HIMSS allows AirStrip the opportunity to demonstrate how its industry-leading platform and application use interoperable mobility to take on the most pressing challenges that providers face.  Visitors to the AirStrip booth can request demos tailored to address specific use cases and pain points including workflow challenges, communication breakdowns, and improving response times. AirStrip will also be highlighting how its partnerships with other innovative healthcare organizations and technology companies are working to deliver breakthrough mobility solutions.