Medsphere Systems Corp. is leading a revolution in health care information technology applications, positively impacting the way medical institutions enhance patient safety, increase quality and improve clinical efficiency.
Medsphere is the leading provider of open source software for the health care industry. The Carlsbad-based company offers products for hospitals, clinics and integrated delivery networks under the brand name of OpenVista.
The Carlsbad Business Journal sat down with Michael J. Doyle, president and CEO of Medsphere, to learn more about the first truly open source company in health care.
CBJ: What is your professional background?
Doyle: I joined Medsphere in October 2007 after serving as president and CEO of Advantedge Healthcare Solutions. I've also served as CEO of Salesnet and held senior management positions at Voluntary Hospitals of America and National Medical Enterprises. In 1989, I founded The Standish Care Company, a provider of assisted living and long-term care services. A series of mergers and acquisitions in the years that followed resulted in its 1996 merger with Carematrix. After the merger, I served as CEO of the combined companies. My efforts ultimately yielded an organization with a market capitalization in excess of $500 million.
CBJ: What is Medsphere's background and history?
Doyle: Medsphere was founded in 2002 by brothers Scott and Steve Shreeve, who recognized an opportunity to work with health care providers as partners in minimizing the costs and maximizing the effectiveness of electronic health record, or EHR, programs. Medsphere has since created a competitive advantage through open source solutions.
CBJ: What services does Medsphere offer?
Doyle: By utilizing the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA solution as the foundation for OpenVista, we provide hospitals with an integrated platform proven to optimize operations across departments and facilities. OpenVista replaces and automates redundant and historically paper-based manual processes, resulting in rapid user adoption while minimizing unnecessary administrative burden. It also facilitates the collection of data for the extended clinical team and for non-clinical uses such as billing, quality management, outcome reporting and resource planning.
CBJ: What is Medsphere's mission?
Doyle: It is captured by our corporate tagline: Transforming health care through open source. Open source is about empowering a community of developers and users on a global scale. The Medsphere.org community portal facilitates collaboration to overcome the common challenges faced by the health care industry as a whole.
CBJ: What is unique about the company?
Doyle: What Medsphere offers is completely new in the health care space. Health care is a collaborative effort, a patient benefits from the collaborative efforts of many clinicians across many settings. In contrast with proprietary EHR solutions that inhibit collaboration, Medsphere is using an open source approach to change that paradigm. Medsphere has developed the health care industry's first community of subscribers, partners and developers, who drive innovation through collaboration.
CBJ: Who are some of your customers?
Doyle: OpenVista is implemented at Midland Memorial Hospital in Texas, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Wyoming and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Medsphere also is implementing OpenVista at Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center, and has implemented a separate VistA-based solution in more than 200 Indian Health Service hospitals and clinics in 34 states. In the last month, we signed contracts to implement OpenVista at a psychiatric hospital in Connecticut and a new hospital opening in Utah.
CBJ: What do you enjoy most about your position?
Doyle: Through the use of OpenVista, Midland Memorial Hospital was able to reduce the number of patient deaths on average by two per month. OpenVista also enabled fewer infections, fewer un-reconciled medications and better care overall. While I'm proud of our commercial success, I'm most excited by the fact the EHR we provide dramatically improves the health care landscape and actually saves patient lives.
CBJ: What do you see for the future of this company?
Doyle: Medicine is collaborative, health care IT is not. For health care to improve in measurable ways as a result of healthcare IT, collaboration in providing technical tools must happen. The paradigm is wrong and we are going to fix it.
Medsphere Systems Corp:
1917 Palomar Oaks Way, Ste. 200, Carlsbad
(760) 692-3700
www.medsphere.com
Medsphere is the leading provider of open source software for the health care industry. The Carlsbad-based company offers products for hospitals, clinics and integrated delivery networks under the brand name of OpenVista.
The Carlsbad Business Journal sat down with Michael J. Doyle, president and CEO of Medsphere, to learn more about the first truly open source company in health care.
CBJ: What is your professional background?
Doyle: I joined Medsphere in October 2007 after serving as president and CEO of Advantedge Healthcare Solutions. I've also served as CEO of Salesnet and held senior management positions at Voluntary Hospitals of America and National Medical Enterprises. In 1989, I founded The Standish Care Company, a provider of assisted living and long-term care services. A series of mergers and acquisitions in the years that followed resulted in its 1996 merger with Carematrix. After the merger, I served as CEO of the combined companies. My efforts ultimately yielded an organization with a market capitalization in excess of $500 million.
CBJ: What is Medsphere's background and history?
Doyle: Medsphere was founded in 2002 by brothers Scott and Steve Shreeve, who recognized an opportunity to work with health care providers as partners in minimizing the costs and maximizing the effectiveness of electronic health record, or EHR, programs. Medsphere has since created a competitive advantage through open source solutions.
CBJ: What services does Medsphere offer?
Doyle: By utilizing the Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA solution as the foundation for OpenVista, we provide hospitals with an integrated platform proven to optimize operations across departments and facilities. OpenVista replaces and automates redundant and historically paper-based manual processes, resulting in rapid user adoption while minimizing unnecessary administrative burden. It also facilitates the collection of data for the extended clinical team and for non-clinical uses such as billing, quality management, outcome reporting and resource planning.
CBJ: What is Medsphere's mission?
Doyle: It is captured by our corporate tagline: Transforming health care through open source. Open source is about empowering a community of developers and users on a global scale. The Medsphere.org community portal facilitates collaboration to overcome the common challenges faced by the health care industry as a whole.
CBJ: What is unique about the company?
Doyle: What Medsphere offers is completely new in the health care space. Health care is a collaborative effort, a patient benefits from the collaborative efforts of many clinicians across many settings. In contrast with proprietary EHR solutions that inhibit collaboration, Medsphere is using an open source approach to change that paradigm. Medsphere has developed the health care industry's first community of subscribers, partners and developers, who drive innovation through collaboration.
CBJ: Who are some of your customers?
Doyle: OpenVista is implemented at Midland Memorial Hospital in Texas, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Wyoming and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Medsphere also is implementing OpenVista at Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center, and has implemented a separate VistA-based solution in more than 200 Indian Health Service hospitals and clinics in 34 states. In the last month, we signed contracts to implement OpenVista at a psychiatric hospital in Connecticut and a new hospital opening in Utah.
CBJ: What do you enjoy most about your position?
Doyle: Through the use of OpenVista, Midland Memorial Hospital was able to reduce the number of patient deaths on average by two per month. OpenVista also enabled fewer infections, fewer un-reconciled medications and better care overall. While I'm proud of our commercial success, I'm most excited by the fact the EHR we provide dramatically improves the health care landscape and actually saves patient lives.
CBJ: What do you see for the future of this company?
Doyle: Medicine is collaborative, health care IT is not. For health care to improve in measurable ways as a result of healthcare IT, collaboration in providing technical tools must happen. The paradigm is wrong and we are going to fix it.
Medsphere Systems Corp:
1917 Palomar Oaks Way, Ste. 200, Carlsbad
(760) 692-3700
www.medsphere.com