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iGetBetter Selects Validic As Its Integration Platform For a Broad Range of Devices
Biometric Data Supporting Care Plans Can Improve Care Transitions and Reduce Readmissions
Waltham, Mass., and Durham, NC, June 10, 2014 – iGetBetter, Inc., a supplier of post-acute care
transition solutions, and Validic, the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for accessing
digital health data, announced today that iGetBetter has selected the Validic platform to access data from
a broad range of available biometric devices as part of its care transition solution focused on reducing
readmissions.
In today’s digital health ecosystem, a patient transitioning from hospital to home often uses one or more
biometric devices, such as weight scales, blood pressure cuffs, glucometers, activity trackers and many
others, often from different manufacturers, and connected to mobile devices running Apple iOS, Google
Android and Microsoft Windows. Being able to collect data from multiple devices, regardless of their
manufacturing source and to which software platform they are connected, is an important part of
providing the best possible care to the patient.
“In a complex care transition process with multiple providers and many devices, it is of great value to
have an integration platform like Validic to make providing our solution easier,” said Win Burke, CEO of
iGetBetter. “Having to develop an API for each of the devices used by providers and patients versus
developing only one to Validic, was a simple choice. We will depend on the Validic platform to collect and
connect patient data and deliver it real time into the iGetBetter solution, so we can focus on improving
care transitions. Our team has started working on the new API and we expect to be able to deliver it as
part of our solution in a matter of weeks.”
Validic currently supports more than one hundred devices giving providers using the iGetBetter solution a
broad choice of biometric data for use by their patients during post-acute care transition. The access to
data from multiple devices, including sensors, wearables or in-home medical devices, in real time,
promises to provide a better overview of patients’ health and ultimately assist patients toward faster
recovery and avoiding hospital readmissions.
“We are proud that iGetBetter selected our platform for its integration needs,” said Ryan Beckland, cofounder and CEO of Validic. “The team at iGetBetter has a great focus on reducing hospital readmissions
through online care delivery and remote monitoring. By using Validic, they are able to quickly and
efficiently access actionable digital health data to further enhance care transitions for patients.”
About Validic
Validic is the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for convenient, easy data access to a
world of digital health and in-home devices, wearables and patient healthcare applications. By
connecting its growing base of customers — that includes providers, pharmaceutical companies, payers,
wellness companies and health systems — to the continuously expanding list of digital health
technologies, Validic enables healthcare companies to better coordinate care across their communities,
improve their patient engagement strategies and more efficiently manage their patient populations.
Validic's innovative, scalable and reliable technology delivers actionable, standardized, FDA Class I
MDDS, HIPAA-compliant consumer health data from best in-class mobile health devices and
applications. Validic's leading global mobile health ecosystem reaches over 42 million lives and
continues to grow daily. To learn more about Validic, please follow us on Twitter @Validic or visit
www.validic.com
About iGetBetter
Established in 2013 and headquartered in Waltham, MA, iGetBetter, Inc., develops, markets and
services a Web-based care transition solution designed to help healthcare organizations reduce
readmissions by engaging patients in their treatments and recovery as they transition from hospital to
home. The iGetBetter team of clinicians, technologists and health organization experts is currently
conducting pilots for congestive heart failure (CHF) and total knee replacement (TKR) patients in some
Massachusetts hospitals. In addition, the company is actively seeking additional pilot opportunities for
patients with conditions such as acute coronary syndrome (ACS), cardiac artery bypass graft (CABG),
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), joint replacement and other high volume or high
expenditure conditions. For more information, please visit www.igetbetter.com or contact
[email protected].
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