QiiQ Teams with Crozer Health

QiiQ has reached a critical milestone in our journey as a health technology company: we have a first customer. Crozer Health, a unit of Prospect Medical, operates four hospitals in Delaware County, PA.  They are facing impending reductions in their employment roster, which may impose even more stress on their already overloaded ERs. They’ve asked for our help. We have been [...]

2022-02-10T14:07:43-08:00By |General|

Acute Care IT – Now and the Future State

Opinions are a-dime-a-dozen. Anyone who's been around this industry has one about where healthcare information tech is now, and where it's going. Some things no-one would dispute: the healthcare industry consumes a huge bulk of GPD (5%-10% globally; 16% in the USA) it lags behind most other industries in terms of technology it falls further and further back all the [...]

2021-12-02T11:42:36-08:00By |General|

To Use the Individual Edition of the QiiQ Assistant

Most Health IT applications are built and sold as enterprise solutions that present: significant cost outlay for the hospital disruption to workflow routine for many people who work delivering care considerable new risks to patient data and system security This typically means that approvals take many months. That can extinguish the appetite and enthusiasm for actually using this tool, [...]

2025-01-26T00:04:10-08:00By |General|

In Pursuit of Workflow Efficiency

The gyrations​ around features and functionality have been damn taxing. Choosing which features to go with have been informed by a huge number of criteria. Some are familiar to any entrepreneur, while some are less common: the hospital approval process (affected by politics, patient safety, regulatory, IT and facilities, and not lastly cost) clinician distrust of administration time/complexity to deploy [...]

2023-03-20T12:29:39-07:00By |General|

Towards a QiiQ Mobile App Design

At the Fraser Health hackathon in January 2017, I met the CEO of QiiQ Healthcare, Dave Brown. I was looking for opportunities to do data visualization at the hackathon, and we got into discussing exciting possibilities for communicating patient tracking metrics to clinicians and administrators for QiiQ. However I wasn’t able to contribute to QiiQ until July, when my contract [...]

2019-11-18T08:39:23-08:00By |General|

Out of the Cupboard – Design Insight

As a CEO who deeply believes that "getting it right" is really really hard, I sometimes have to defend the importance of design. This morning I found myself contemplating that conversation once again. And this time, the designer's talents for empathy and reflection emerged as two key abilities that can make all the difference to a product's appeal. Consider the [...]

2023-10-25T11:51:14-07:00By |Design, General|

The Brutality of Sepsis

Between the Sepsis Alliance and the Center for Disease Control, a lot has been published about the impact of sepsis on the US healthcare system.  The dramatic figures in the USA reflect an even more grim picture when one examines what's been happening in less developed countries where healthcare technology and methods are not as advanced. Impact on OUTCOMES The [...]

2019-11-18T08:42:17-08:00By |Clinical, General|
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