Validus Medical Systems Launches Breakthrough Mobile Software Solution For Hospitals

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Validus Medical Systems, Inc., a privately held healthcare IT firm founded by veteran entrepreneur David Kashtan (Network Alchemy, TGV Software), formally launched its breakthrough bi-directional mobile software solution for hospital systems. The Validus inTouch^TM software system was developed by Kashtan, a team of leading physicians, software engineers, cloud computing experts, and network security specialists to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. Better care means better results and lower costs. This network-based system will, for example, help eliminate the incidence of costly test duplication, medical errors, and prescription oversights that lead to medical misadventures.

“The Validus approach has been to adapt to the devices the physicians already use in their medical practices and personal lives.”

The inTouch^TM software suite can be used from any browser using a smart phone, tablet PC, desktop, or laptop. The core features of this network-based suite of tools include comprehensive Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), real-time patient information, speech recognition, customizable order sets, complete end-to-end medication reconciliation, discharge document creation, integration with Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and support for existing paper workflow. The inTouch^TM user interface and interoperability are powerful, intuitive and elegant in their simplicity.

"We talked with a lot of doctors and hospital CIOs, and heard a lot of horror stories and frustration with current IT solutions," said Validus Founder and CEO David Kashtan. "Basically, if you can Google, download an iPhone 'app' or order a book on Amazon, you can master inTouch^TM in about 10 minutes."

Insights gleaned from the early adopters that have deployed inTouch^TM, such as the San Ramon Regional Medical Center and Los Alamitos Medical Center, both members of the Tenet Healthcare system, speak to the degree to which this technology is improving the practice of medicine.

“Validus is solving problems that other companies don't seem to be able to solve, and doing it in a cost effective way,” said San Ramon Regional Medical Center CEO Gary Sloan.

“The typical approach is to force doctors to adapt to the hardware and software provided by the hospital," said Los Alamitos Medical Center CEO Michele Finney. "The Validus approach has been to adapt to the devices the physicians already use in their medical practices and personal lives."

And doctors and patients alike can take comfort in the knowledge that the software engineers at Validus who developed the inTouch^TM technology are among the world's leading experts in data security. Complying with HIPAA privacy standards and exceeding best practices for network security were central to the software engineering philosophy that informed the development of inTouch^TM. Indeed, the Validus software suite exceeds HIPAA privacy standards and best practices for data security. The end result is that regardless of whether a doctor is making rounds, or needs to make a crucial decision from a remote location, he/she can access a patient's medical history, order lab tests and results or medications, and communicate in real-time with other team members, all without putting patient information or any aspect of the hospital database at risk.

The inTouch^TM system is entering the market at a crucial moment in the evolution of healthcare innovation. New hospital automation initiatives, rising compliance requirements, and the relentless drive to be more efficient and accurate are redefining the relationship between information technology, physicians and the supporting clinical team of caregivers and service providers. Moreover, thanks to President Obama's economic stimulus plan, which will make available to hospital systems some $20 billion in grants for healthcare IT investment and upgrades, there has never been a better time for customers not only to revisit their current technology deficiencies, but actually take action to solve them. The winds of change favor innovations like inTouch^TM that are not mere step changes, but rather a giant leap forward.

About inTouch^TM

Validus inTouch™ is the most advanced mobile clinical information solution available to hospitals today. Designed by doctors, for doctors, inTouch™ brings patient information and order entry to the physician, regardless of his/her location. Integrating directly with a hospital’s existing admission, patient records, pharmacy, and lab systems, inTouch™ brings the physician a complete order entry and patient information system to their desktop, laptop, tablet PC, or mobile phone.

By empowering and assisting the physician with the latest tools for order entry and information management, inTouch™ helps to improve the overall level of care. Repetitive and time-wasting parts of patient care are minimized and automated, freeing the physician to focus on what’s important—caring for patients.

Key functional features:

Mobile entry of all clinical orders including medications, labs, radiology, diet, and others
Speech recognition offers physicians the ability to combine traditional and voice input in a single order
Real-time access to patient information, orders, and results; fully integrated with existing hospital systems
inTouch Medication Reconciliation optimizes process at admission and discharge
inTouch Order Entry speeds re-use of common orders and order sets; checks for drug interactions

About Validus Medical Systems and David Kashtan

Santa Cruz, California-based Validus Medical Systems, Inc. is a privately held healthcare IT solutions firm founded by serial entrepreneur David Kashtan, who has a track record of success in information technology. After working at Stanford Research Institute’s Artificial Intelligence Center, David founded TGV Software, which he took public and later sold to Cisco Systems in 1996. Following this success, he founded Network Alchemy, which was sold to Nokia in 2000. In 2002, Kashtan formed Validus to solve a seemingly intractable problem in healthcare IT: no CPOE product on the market could offer complete clinical coverage while providing the physician with the mobility their practice demanded. The solution is inTouch^TM.