Advancing Healthcare Information Exchange
Karos Health (www.karoshealth.com) today announced receiving a $149,600 non-repayable financial contribution from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) as part of the Community Adjustment Fund. In addition to both technical and business oriented advisory services, this funding will support Karos Health in researching and developing innovative ways to simplify deployment, decrease operational costs and enhance security of its platform for cross-enterprise clinical information exchange.
Today, healthcare institutions face major challenges in the secure exchange of clinical information with other healthcare providers and patients. The innovative solutions resulting from our research and development efforts will lead to enhanced exchange of clinical information while at the same time reducing overall costs of collaboration, making Karos’ Rialto platform an obvious choice for today’s healthcare providers.
“NRC-IRAP is playing an important role in the growth of our company” said Rick Stroobosscher, President of Karos Health. “The financial support we are receiving from this program will help us continue to develop innovative solutions for the healthcare industry. We are proud to be receiving this recognition of the work and direction we are taking to commercialize our products.” he added.
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Karos Health, Diagnostic Imaging, healthcare information technology, HIT, healthcare communication and information technology, HCIT, health information exchange, HIE, electronic health record, EHR, clinical systems interoperability, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, IHE, DICOM, HL7, Radiology Information System, RIS, Picture Archiving and Communication System, PACS, Vendor Neutral Archives, VNA, Clinical Data Repository, CDR, National Research Council, NRC, Industrial Research Assistance Progam, IRAP.
Links / URLs:
- NRC-IRAP: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/irap.html
- Canada’s Economic Action Plan: http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/
About NRC-IRAP
NRC-IRAP provides a range of both technical and business-oriented advisory services along with potential financial support to qualified innovative Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises. In 2009, the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan has provided new resources of $200 million to the program over two years to support innovative Canadian firms. In addition, NRC-IRAP received $45 million this year – $17 million through FedDev Ontario and $28 million through the Community Adjustment Fund – to stimulate job creation and the economy in Southern Ontario. More information about NRC-IRAP is available at www.irap-pari.nrc.gc.ca.
About Karos Health
Karos Health is focused on elevating the quality of patient care by enabling the sharing of clinical information. Karos’ flagship product Rialto empowers healthcare enterprises to enable cross community access to information, facilitating collaboration between healthcare providers and patients. Rialto is based on open standards that ensure safe and secure handling of patient health information and is backed by a team with decades of experience in healthcare interoperability. For more information about Karos, visit www.karoshealth.com.
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Contact
Michel Pawlicz
Karos Health
michel.pawlicz@karoshealth.com
+1 519 594 0940
