Founda Health develops software solutions for healthcare providers that facilitate seamless application integration and secure data exchange across electronic health records (EHRs). By automating patient registration and follow-up processes, Founda significantly reduces administrative burdens and enhances patient outcomes, saving healthcare staff over 400 hours annually.
Funding
$15M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Integrating digital health applications with electronic health record (EHR) systems is complex and costly due to a lack of standardized data exchange methods. This complexity hinders the adoption of innovative healthcare solutions and creates administrative burdens for both healthcare providers and digital health companies. The difficulty in achieving seamless data flow between systems can also negatively impact patient outcomes.
Solution
Founda Health provides a platform that simplifies the integration of digital health applications with EHRs, enabling seamless data exchange and reducing administrative overhead. The platform offers pre-built, reusable integrations and a suite of services including patient demographics exchange, clinical data access, document exchange, and appointment scheduling. By using standardized FHIR endpoints, the platform ensures that integrations are scalable and reusable, regardless of variations in individual EHR systems. Founda Health's services streamline data movement, allowing healthcare providers and digital health companies to focus on patient care and innovation rather than technical complexities.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes healthcare providers seeking to streamline administrative processes and improve patient outcomes, as well as digital health companies aiming to integrate their solutions with EHR systems efficiently. Health Information Exchange (HIE) Network Organizations are also a key target, as the platform helps them demonstrate value to their members and improve coordination of care.
Features
- Patient Demographics Exchange: Enables seamless exchange of patient demographic data between digital health solutions and healthcare providers.
- Access to Clinical Data: Provides automated access to up-to-date clinical patient information, such as vital signs, observations, medication statements, and lab results, directly from the EHR.
- Document Exchange: Streamlines the process of uploading documents into EHRs, automatically transferring report files from various sources.
- Appointment Scheduling: Facilitates data movement across systems, simplifying patient appointment scheduling by allowing applications to retrieve, create, or update appointments and access doctor's schedules.
- Subscription Service: Connects healthcare applications and providers with real-time event notifications for patient admissions, discharges, and contact information changes.
- Transformation Service: Converts legacy healthcare data from HL7v2 messages to FHIR Bundles and vice versa.
- HealthAPI Service: Provides a central access point for applications to engage with connected healthcare providers through standardized FHIR endpoints.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) Service: Manages and controls secure access to patient data, ensuring only authorized systems and individuals can access it.
- Audit Service: Maintains a repository of audit records, providing a secure trail of actions taken within the platform for accountability and compliance.
- Console Service: A user interface that allows applications and providers to manage and control their integrations, request access to data, and manage subscriptions.