April 13, 2020
Some of the biggest names in health care and industry are teaming with local startups to tackle the needs of medical workers.
Two Orlando companies recently landed partnerships with Koch Industries and the National Institutes of Health to use their technology to enable nurses and physicians to treat coronavirus patients safer and quicker.
And that’s important as the virus continues to take a toll globally and locally. More than 1.8 million people have been infected and 118,000 have died as of April 13, according to Johns Hopkins University. That includes 20,600 cases and 470 deaths in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Health. Orange County has experienced at least 1,017 cases.
Here’s more on how these partnerships will broaden the reach of these companies.
AndorHealth LLC
Many hospitals across the U.S. are strained by the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, making accurate and rapid communication as important as ever.
And Orlando-based AndorHealth LLC has been recognized by a leading hospital as a company that can help with that. The health tech firm, founded in 2018, announced April 8 that its ThinkAndor platform will be deployed in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
The platform can deliver data from electronic medical records to health care workers, such as electronically alerting doctors and nurses how many coronavirus patients are in a hospital or if a patient needs to be isolated and tested for the virus.
It’s a big improvement over the current system, where workers search through electronic records, which can take more than 20 minutes, CEO Raj Toleti told Orlando Business Journal. “We wanted to bring together a system where data goes to the care team instead of care teams going to back-end systems.”
Raj Toleti, CEO of Andor Health LLC
ANDOR HEALTH
This deployment brings the number of hospital beds monitored by AndorHealth’s platform to more than 4,000 across the U.S., Toleti said. It’s the fourth local health tech startup launched by Toleti. “I don’t play golf. All I do is build technology companies.”View Original Post Here
