Aventura will demonstrate the patient record auto-population feature at HIMSS booth 8300.

According to T. (Teo) Forcht Dagi, M.D., DMedSc, FAANS, FACS, FCCM chief medical officer of Aventura, “Computers and clinicians have always been at odds. Physicians and nurses need mobility to do their jobs, but most hospital computers aren’t mobile. For many years, physicians and nurses have been clamoring for an ideal world in which they would have instantaneous access to their computer sessions irrespective of where they were, by dint of a computer smart enough to instantly display the needed information or patient record each time they walked anew into a patient’s room.”

Aventura now delivers this feature on a select number of major EHR systems.

“The automatic population of the patient record not only reduces logon times, it helps ensure that the physicians and nurses are entering notes, completing verifications and e-prescribing for the correct patient every time at the point of care,” said Howard Diamond, CEO of Aventura.

“Too often, when hospitals introduce a roaming desktop, they find that physicians and nurses moving between patient rooms find the record from the previous patient to still be up when they logon anew in the next patient’s room. This can lead to potentially dangerous situations in which forgetting to close the previous patient record and bring up the new one could result in documentation errors, order entry errors, and HIPAA violations,” Diamond said.

Aventura uses a combination of location awareness and context sensitivity to immediately deliver to clinicians a desktop that has been “molded” in response to who they are and in what location n the facility they find themselves. A video demonstration of this new feature is available here.

On the basis of these capabilities, Aventura’s solution identifies the clinician, the clinician’s specific role, and the clinician’s current location. Using this information, Aventura can respond to their specific needs almost instantaneously by roaming and dynamically updating their computing sessions. The ability to bring up new data fields, new policies and new printers as clinicians move throughout the hospital increases EHR use, improves CPOE access, has the potential to reduce medical errors, and diminishes connection times by up to 90% per individual shift.

Diamond said Aventura’s mission is to give clinicians the specific information they need, when and where they need it.

“Our system orchestrates the technologies the hospital already has in place, making them responsive to the user. We provide tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. The result is improved clinician satisfaction, increased EMR use at the point of care, increased safety, and an increased focus on the quality of care,” Diamond said.

Based in Denver and founded in 2008, Aventura serves some 30 hospitals in 10 states. For more information see www.aventurahq.com.

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The significant staff increase follows the company’s recent first round of institutional venture funding, led by HLM Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management, with participation by Siemens Venture Capital.

Access to clinical is painfully slow, and as a result, caregivers are reluctant to use the systems at the point-of-care. When real-time data entry doesn’t occur, data and clinician workflow are compromised. Aventura software offers near-instant access to EMR and other application information. It presents the right data based on a user’s needs and location, without a full logon every time. Computing sessions move with caregivers, enabling them to spend more time treating patients, not computers.

The staff additions span across sales and marketing, technology, and delivery and services. Most are senior level, with extensive healthcare backgrounds. There are additional positions that expect to be filled before the end of the year.

Howard Diamond, Aventura CEO, is pleased, “We have expanded our depth and breadth of both functional and market experience. The seasoned team we have brought on promotes doing business with Aventura means dealing with the best and brightest in healthcare, as we continue to focus on improving the caregiver experience.”

Eight new staff joined Sales and Marketing. Three Directors of Sales have been added, all with extensive EMR and clinical application experience, and the Director of Marketing has a deep customer-centric technology background. Two additional team members bring executive-level hospital experience to the team to support the sales efforts and provide like-minded liaisons with customers. In addition, a Technical Writer and Sales Coordinator will round out the sales and marketing efforts.

The technology team added five new employees: Test Developer, Systems Engineer, Software Application Developer, Test Developer and two Quality Assurance Engineers. Delivery and Services also added two. The Chief Customer Officer, responsible for implementation and support of Aventura products will ensure that Aventura customers achieve the full value of what the software can offer. A Customer Services Assistant will support steam members and customers.

About Aventura: Aventura software offers near-instant access to EMR and other application information, and presents the relevant data based on a user’s needs in a specific location, without a full logon every time. Computing sessions move with caregivers, enabling them to spend more time with patients, not computers. Aventura is a private company based in Denver, CO. To learn more, please visit www.aventurahq.com.

Doctors and nurses move; computers don’t. Aventura solves that problem. The software simplifies computing for caregivers, allowing them to spend more time with patients. It transforms clinician workflow, not how care is provided. Aventura quickly allows caregivers to access EMR and other data, and tailor it based on who and where they are.

The solution, which enables productivity improvements, cost savings, increased physician and nurse satisfaction, and higher rate of clinical system adoption, while promoting compliance and patient safety, improves user experience, particularly related to system and data access, application control, and printing.

Dr. Dagi, a neurosurgeon, is currently a partner at HLM Venture. He also serves as a Distinguished Scholar and Professor, and Chair of the International Advisory Panel at the School of Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in healthcare information technology for over twenty-five years, and in investment in innovative healthcare technologies and services since 1997. He was involved in the development and deployment of both inpatient and outpatient informatics solutions and is credited with developing the first decision support system for neurosurgery.

Teo has served as a director of multiple privately held and publicly traded companies. He received an AB from Columbia College, an MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins, an MTS from Harvard, an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School, and a DMedSc (HC) from Queens University Belfast. He trained in neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, is a diplomat and a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the College of Critical Care Medicine.

“Aventura doesn’t change the complexity of healthcare, but it does make it possible to do what needs to be done more efficiently,” states Dr. Dagi. “While technological advances have contributed many innovative systems to healthcare, it’s their coordination that’s been the challenge. With Aventura, doctors no longer need to chase data. The right data comes to them when and how they need it. This solution benefits workflow management tremendously and benefits providers also, but ultimately, its real advantage is in benefiting patients. I am honored to join the Aventura team.”

Howard Diamond, Aventura CEO, commented, “Teo has the experience, achievement, integrity, and passion to help us as we strive to improve patient care, and stop wasting time fighting technology. He can give us the perspective of the clinician: needs, frustrations and aspirations, so that we can continue to optimize healthcare workflow.”

Aventura recently raised more than $13 million in its first round of institutional venture funding. The round was led by HLM Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management, with participation by Siemens Venture Capital, all veteran firms with major healthcare expertise.

About Aventura: Doctors and nurses move; computers don’t. Aventura solves that problem. Our software simplifies computing for caregivers, allowing them to spend more time with patients. It transforms clinician workflow, not how care is provided. Aventura quickly allows caregivers to access EMR and other data, and tailor it based on who and where they are. Aventura is a private company based in Denver, CO. To learn more, please visit www.aventurahq.com.

DENVER, Colo. (September 20, 2011) AventuraHQ, Inc. announced today that the company has raised more than $13 million in its first round of institutional venture funding. The round was led by HLM Venture Partners and Excel Venture Management with participation by Siemens Venture Capital (SVC). All these firms have major healthcare expertise.

Aventura provides clinicians near-instant access to their clinical data from any end point device. The software dynamically molds existing desktop and application sessions to the right data and applications every time a doctor or nurse changes locations. The result is increased clinician productivity and satisfaction, while reducing the risk of medical errors and patient privacy leaks.

Aventura software works in both virtual and non-virtual desktop environments, making it immediately useful for U.S. hospitals, outpatient facilities and large patient practices.

According to CEO Howard Diamond, “I am thrilled that three of the world’s top medical venture firms have looked seriously under the hood and come to the same conclusion: our technology makes a major difference in the lives of the clinicians providing patient care. This is a significant vote of confidence in our technology, our people and our business.”

“What we found especially telling is that once physicians see and use Aventura, they are totally unwilling to give it up”, said Teo Forcht Dagi, MD, Partner in HLM Venture Partners. “What we like about Aventura is that they have a very experienced management team leading an effort to give back time to providers in hospitals. This is a technology that safeguards patient data, extends the life of existing networks, and is hugely compatible with existing healthcare IT systems.”

The big benefit, according to Diamond, is that computers and data management no longer delay patient care services. Clinicians have the electronic applications they need in close to real time so that they can meaningfully use electronic medical records. Aventura untangles the complex network of clinical applications and hardware so doctors and nurses spend less time with computers and more time with patients.

Diamond adds, “Aventura makes IT folks look like heroes because clinicians find it easy to integrate EMRs into their daily workflow. With greater usage the IT systems become much more effective which is good for everybody in the long run.”

Caleb Winder, Director at Excel Venture Management, states, “This is all about improving the quality of care. Aventura streamlines the workflow for caregivers who log into their medical systems 50-70 times a day. The software allows rapid data access and input so that they can provide higher quality patient care.”

About Aventura
Aventura is a Denver-based software company that is working at the frontier of clinical medicine.
The Aventura platform unifies all clinical applications, computers and printers into a single rules-driven system that delivers what clinicians need on the screen anywhere in the hospital. Find out more at www.aventurahq.com

About HLM Venture Partners
HLM Venture Partners is a proven, leading venture capital health care investor, having provided over $200 million in capital to some of the most dynamic, innovative companies. With offices in Boston and San Francisco, HLM is focused on building sustainable companies and profitable exits—benefiting both entrepreneurs and investors. Emerging health care companies rely on the expertise of HLM Venture Partners with a depth of health care industry knowledge that is unmatched.

About Excel Venture Management
Excel Venture Management builds companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond. The Excel investment portfolio is balanced across healthcare IT and services, diagnostics, and medical devices, plus life science platforms that address adjacent markets including energy, chemicals, defense and agriculture.

Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC)
Siemens Venture Capital GmbH (SVC) is the corporate venture capital organization of Siemens and a business segment of Siemens Financial Services, invests in early-stage technology companies and established growth companies, focusing on the energy, industry and healthcare sectors. In this way, SVC identifies innovative solutions from which Siemens can profit and plays a key role in Siemens’ global innovation network. To date, the company has invested more than EUR 800 mn in over 150 companies and 40 venture capital funds.

Up to now, hospitals and other mobile workforces were either virtualized or not. There was no grey area, which presented large problems for IT teams looking to upgrade but lacking the resources for the complete overhaul necessary to support roaming desktop workflow. In medicine, this is particularly pertinent, where the urgency of access is at its most critical.

Aventura, a software company focused on improving clinician workflow, has figured out how to give hospitals the fast access of virtualization using their existing assets. Their new Distributed Session Brokering, or DSB, utilizes only a hospital’s existing PCs with no virtual desktop back-end in order to create a dynamic roaming desktop environment. DSB rates the performance of every PC and assigns the users only the best performing desktop available. This dynamically updating desktop session travels with them and can be accessed from any other terminal in their environment. Equally, any other doctor or nurse can use that same terminal or any other to access their respective desktop. This centralized system even works in mixed VDI/PC environments, growing with hospitals instead of demanding they jump ahead. This more evolutionary than revolutionary solution not only potentially saves time for doctors and nurses, but stands to save hospitals a lot of money as well, letting them optimize their backend infrastructure at a rate that keeps their budgets balanced.

“This is a game changer,” said Aventura CEO, Howard Diamond. “The fact of the matter is, we have men and women on the frontlines of healthcare who can’t get to the applications they need to do their jobs. With hospitals running anywhere from 150-200 clinical applications at a time, speed and dynamic access are paramount. Traditionally this meant a full-scale conversion to VDI. As this is a barrier to entry for most hospitals, AV figured out how to give hospitals a way to utilize their existing investments while bridging their path to future upgrades. And when they’re ready to virtualize, Aventura can easily move with them.”

Aventura is a Denver, Colorado, software company that works exclusively with hospitals to make their enormous investment in EMRs deliver for the mobile workforce. The Aventura Architecture is a hardware and software agnostic solution that enables five second logons, immediate log offs, and automatically updates policies, rules, and printers as clinicians move throughout, and even beyond the hospital. Now doctors and nurses can spend less time fighting computers and more time doing the job they signed up for.

According to Aventura’s CEO, Howard Diamond, “We have brilliant technology but we were going to market with one hand tied behind our back because we were offering it as a hardware-specific solution. We are basically unlocking the software genius of our approach and making it work for hospitals regardless of what kind of hardware or EMR they have.”

So where does the new name come from? Diamond says, “Doctors and nurses sign up for an incredible adventure: think about all the responsibility, the dangers, the science, the creativity. But we are forcing them to spend way too much time struggling with computers. Our mission is to give them back their time–to work with patients and to think critically about patient care. In short, to get them back to the adventure they signed up for.

“We deliberately chose a name that feels more romantic and less high tech because we think the real heroes are the doctors and nurses on the front lines. And we’re happy to say that everyone loves it.”

Aventura is a Denver, Colorado, software company that works exclusively with hospitals to make their enormous investment in EMRs deliver Meaningful Use at the point of care. The Aventura Architecture is a hardware and software agnostic solution that enables five second logins and immediate log offs so clinicians can spend more time working with patients and less time wrestling with computers. Hospitals use Aventura to deliver context-sensitive desktops that keep patient data safe and always know where to print.