BackpackEMR Awarded Project of the Year!

BackpackEMR Awarded Project of the Year!

Couchbase, a provider of BackpackEMR’s core technology, awarded our solution Project of the Year! We are so excited to receive this award after years of refining our offline data-sharing capabilities using Couchbase’s feature set. 

Haven’t heard about Couchbase? We’re about to get technical, but if you want to know more about Couchbase’s capabilities, read on! 

Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multi-cloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. As a distributed cloud-native database, Couchbase runs in modern dynamic environments and on any cloud, either customer-managed or fully managed as-a-service. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases.

Some of Couchbase’s customers include industry leaders Amadeus, American Express, Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast/Sky, Disney, eBay, LinkedIn, Marriott, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, as well as hundreds of other household names. For more information, go to www.couchbase.com.  

Check out the announcement on Globe News Wire to hear more about our partnership and accomplishments together!

BackpackEMR Releases the Much-Anticipated Virtual Care Platform!

BackpackEMR Releases the Much-Anticipated Virtual Care Platform!

We are excited to launch our NEW Virtual Care services to help medical teams get back to their mission of providing healthcare to underserved communities overseas.

As word of COVID-19 spread in early 2020, we saw travel restrictions kick in. The pandemic was preventing medical teams from visiting the communities that they have been supporting for years. Organizations began the process of restructuring their support to these communities, including sending supplies or providing financial support instead of providing medical care. 

We wanted to help, and searched for ways to reach patients remotely. In the US, this meant telemedicine. But we knew that without access to consistent internet, most of these communities would be unable to support the typical video chat. So, we enhanced BackpackEMR with a Virtual Care process that allows local teams to visit individual patients safely, capture health information while offline, and upload patient charts to the cloud. If the local team requests a remote consult, a notification will go to the requested provider who can securely log into our new Web Portal from anywhere – even their couch!

We also found some unexpected benefits to the new Web Portal and Virtual Care features that will continue post-COVID restrictions: 

1. LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: Local teams are now empowered with more leadership and control of healthcare in their communities. And, with future clinical decision support tools and predictive analytics to help suggest diagnosis or treatments, we can further empower local teams to see patients for routine visits.

2. COST SAVINGS: Medical teams can now follow up with patients remotely at any time, so large, expensive, in-person clinics can be made more infrequently, saving time, money, and resources.

3. SUSTAINABILITY: Operations can become more sustainable with remote access during future pandemics, civil unrest, or natural disasters.

4. INCREASED ENGAGEMENT: Medical volunteers that are no longer able to travel or cannot afford to travel can stay engaged by providing remote consults.

We have had a great response from medical organizations! Several groups are planning to use our Virtual Care features in December, so make sure to sign up for our Newsletter if you want hear how they go!

And, if you’d like to understand how the Virtual Care platform can keep your medical volunteers engaged, schedule a quick 15 minute chat here and demo the platform today. 

Brenda Henry Joins Binary Bridge!

Brenda Henry Joins Binary Bridge!

Binary Bridge is excited to welcome Brenda Henry as our new Sales and Account Lead! 

Brenda has a 20+ year career in marketing, business development, and account management. In some of her previous roles, she’s managed consumer education programs for medical devices, marketing and outreach for study abroad programs, and worked with large, national brands, managing deliverables for package design, product development, branding and product naming. 

She’s worked with companies of all types and sizes, including the small, non-profit branding organization called Good Thinking Atlanta, and international companies like Boston Scientific. She enjoys getting to know her clients, and their organization’s needs, so she can provide them with the best solutions.

Brenda’s experience is a great fit for Binary Bridge, and we can’t wait to have her work with the amazing organizations checking out BackpackEMR for their medical teams.

One in a Million Award Recipient

One in a Million Award Recipient

We are honored to be recognized by Multiplying Good as a One In A Million award recipient. Awards are granted to people or organizations who are putting others first and using service as a solution to the problems we’re facing. 

Binary Bridge is using BackpackEMR to help increase access to healthcare and improve the quality of care for underserved communities in rural locations.  

We want to thank Jeff Urban for nominating us, and Multiplying Good for the award! Check out the article here.

Let’sall continue to do good!

BackpackEMR Selected for gBETA COVID-19 Innovation Showcase

BackpackEMR Selected for gBETA COVID-19 Innovation Showcase

gBETA selected BackpackEMR from over 100 applicants to present at gBETA’s Midwest COVID-19 Innovation Showcase. We presented with 13 other incredible startups who all quickly transitioned during the pandemic to support medical teams fighting the coronavirus.

In March, we saw that any patient-tracking tools, including in remote locations within low-income countries, would need to track COVID-19 symptoms and risk factors. So we added the WHO and CDC-recommended COVID-19 surveys into BackpackEMR, along with creating robust COVID-19 case-tracking dashboards for governments or regions.

Additionally, we have been working closely with traveling medical teams who are no longer able to see patients in remote villages due to travel restrictions. They are anxious to find ways to continue to provide healthcare from afar, so we are working on building Virtual Visits (or “asynchronous telemedicine”) into BackpackEMR.

 

You can watch the full showcase here – and make sure to check out our presentation of COVID-19 modifications in BackpackEMR at minute 46:05!

Podcast: Building A Strong Bridge for Remote Healthcare

Podcast: Building A Strong Bridge for Remote Healthcare

Founders Live has some amazing prizes for winning pitch competitions! One of our favorites is a podcast interview with the Nick Hughes, CEO of Founders Live. Nick interviewed Lori Most, the founder and CEO Binary Bridge, after she won the Founders Live Minneapolis Pitch Competition in May.

Nick and Lori have an interesting and insightful conversation that you’ll want to hear. Lori talks about her perspectives on COVID-19 and the racial tensions in the US, which started in Minneapolis, just down the street from the Binary Bridge office. She also discusses her journey as an entrepreneur, how she identified the challenges of remote healthcare, and the next steps in building our BackpackEMR solution. 

Click here to listen to Lori’s stories on the Founders Live Podcast!

The Founders Live Podcast 062 - Lori Most: Building A Strong and Sturdy Bridge for Rural and Remote Healthcare

by Nick Hughes