Aventura CMO T. (Teo) Forcht Dagi, MD, MPH, DMedSc, Presents Challenges on Clinician Workflow at Ninth Annual Digital Healthcare Conference

May 17, 2012

Madison-based thought leadership forum provides opportunity to close gaps in healthcare IT disparities.

Denver, CO—May 17,2012—Aventura (www.aventurahq.com), the company that makes clinicians’ work flow, announced today that two company executives will provide thought leadership at the Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison, Wisconsin May 22-23. T. (Teo) Forcht Dagi, MD, MPH, DMedSc.—partner at HLM Venture Partners, Aventura Board Member and Chief Medical Officer—will provide a keynote presentation on how technology barriers affect clinician workflow and quality of care. Aventura CEO Howard Diamond will share his vision on the importance of considering the clinician experience when trying to change healthcare through technology.

In the keynote Re-engineering HCIT, Time for a Course Correction?, Dr. Dagi will discuss the barriers to patient care presented by current approaches to HCIT. Technological barriers including lengthy access times, data loss, and complicated work processes that arise when technology fails to match the clinician workflows.  Solutions Dr. Dagi will explore include:

• Eliminating the one-size-fits-all approach to HCIT solutions
• Designing and optimizing systems around clinician workflows and usability
• Re-engineering HCIT to facilitate patient care

“This group,” said Dr. Dagi, “is made up of highly experienced leaders in HCIT devoted to improving medicine. We need to make sure that advances in technology remain focused on clinical care. I am honored to be part of such a distinguished and thought-provoking forum.”

In his Strategic Roundtable Discussion: Using Healthcare IT to Improve the Clinical Experience, Aventura CEO Howard Diamond will encourage the audience to share their experiences using context-aware technology to deliver the right patient information at the right time to improve critical care decision. “Closing the gaps in the healthcare disparities between clinicians and the systems that don’t work for them is critical to making technology less of a reporting tool and more of a tool providing decision support,” said Diamond.

The Digital Healthcare Conference will be held at the Fluno Center in Madison and will showcase thought leadership ideas from senior-level attendees from end-user organizations. To schedule a one-on-one briefing with Aventura executives, please contact Catherine Loop at catherine.loop@aventurahq.com.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

Former Chairman of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society to Challenge Leading Hospital CIOs and Physicians to Think Differently About Healthcare

May 15, 2012

Barry P. Chaiken, M.D. to speak at West Coast Soarian Users Group Meeting about Mapping Technology to Clinical Workflow to Enhance Quality and Safety

Denver, CO — May 15, 2012 — Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, former board chair of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will address hospital executives on Wednesday, May 16 at the West Coast Soarian Users Group Meeting at the Hotel Monaco in Denver, CO. Dr. Chaiken will lead two separate sessions designed to provoke debate and discussion about how to improve quality and safety in today’s rapidly changing tech-driven hospitals.

In his talk Secret Sauce: Leveraging Workflow to Drive Adoption, Dr. Chaiken will discuss how rapid healthcare information technology implementations meet resistance because they fail to consider a critical element: mapping to the actual flow of work the technology supports. In a separate session with nurse informaticists, Dr. Chaiken will discuss how to avoid the danger technology can present to patients when it is implemented improperly in his session Using Intelligent Workflow to Enhance Quality and Safety.

“Technology can bring rapid improvements to healthcare, when implemented thoughtfully,” said Dr. Barry P. Chaiken. “When implemented quickly, healthcare technology can dramatically impede the natural workflow of clinicians. By bringing clinicians and IT professionals together, we can collaborate to bring about real technology-based change, rather than just adapting to mandates.”

Dr. Barry P. Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd. where he provides thought leadership and offers clients like Aventura his expertise in clinical transformation and quality improvement. He serves as a Healthcare Advisory Board member at Symphony Corporation, and as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. Chaiken has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He writes a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare and is a frequent contributor to WTN Media’s online publications. Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. For Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), he served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010).

The 2012 CIO and Clinical Informatics Summit for the West Coast Soarian Users Group, sponsored in part by Aventura, provides an opportunity for healthcare IT leaders to visualize capitalizing on advancements and collaborate upon the common challenges of peers.

About Aventura:
Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.

Aventura Featured in VMBlog at Citrix Synergy 2012

May 10, 2012

VP Product Management’s Interview Demonstrates Clinical Workflow Solution

Denver, CO — May 10, 2012 — Aventura’s Vice President of Product Management, Karyn German, was featured today on VMBlog at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference in San Francisco. German demonstrated how the clinical workflow solution leverages the virtualized environment using Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, and illustrates how the solution maps the computing environment to the flow of the clinician work. With Aventura, doctors and nurses gain near-instant access to the information they need to make critical care decisions from any workstation in the hospital, thereby increasing productivity, improving care and boosting satisfaction.

“We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to discuss our healthcare solution with Citrix experts and other IT leaders from across the globe,” said German.  “Synergy has been a wonderful opportunity to showcase our rules-based clinical workflow solution to folks who are also using Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.”

Because healthcare IT requires the clinician to work the way the technology is designed, rather than making the technology support the work flow of the clinician, their doctors and nurses are not benefitting from the great technology already in place. Valuable patient time is monopolized struggling with computers and searching for printed documents, thereby frustrating IT, patients and physicians. Aventura’s workflow solution grants desktop access to critical information clinicians need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes from anywhere in the hospital using context- and location-aware technology.

Aventura participated in the Citrix Synergy Solutions Expo May 9 and 10 with more than 60 leading IT companies and demonstrated the rules-based clinical workflow solution at booth #507.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

Aventura Points to Healthcare IT “Elephant”

May 08, 2012

Identifies Fix for Hospital Computing Problems Using Clinical Workflow Rather than Band-Aids

Denver, CO—May 8,2012—Brian Stern, Senior Vice President at Aventura, yesterday helped an experienced room of hospital clinicians at the Healthcare IT Institute Conference in Sawgrass, Florida identify how to turn the tide on clinical computing. In his presentation, Clinical Computing: Friend or Foe—How Clinical Workflow Changes the Tide—Stern discussed how to move the fix for healthcare IT away from using Band-Aids and toward a more comprehensive solution that changes the way clinicians work with healthcare information.

“As a nation, we’re spending a large bucket of funds on healthcare IT, and seeing limited results in improved care,” said Brian Stern, Senior Vice President at Aventura. “New technology mandates have driven 44% of healthcare facilities to increase their IT budgets in the past three years. The challenge is that new clinical computing systems, which don’t support the clinician workflow, are becoming tools to document care activity rather than tools to enhance care. The only way to change the way doctors and nurses interact with healthcare tools—and therefore drive better care results—is to match the way they work with patients.”

Some of the points in Stern’s presentation include:

• 44% of healthcare IT budgets have increased over the past three years[1]
• 39% of that increase will go to implementing EMR systems, followed by 27% of spend on capital equipment[2]
• $2.6T was the healthcare spend in 2010 compared to $256B in 1980[3]

Computer sharing and long logon processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. As a leader in using context- and location-aware computing in healthcare, Aventura presents patient information intelligently to the clinician based on location and credentials. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives clinicians desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

Click here to see Brian Stern’s presentation.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.  Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

Aventura to Demonstrate Context-Aware Hospital Solution at Citrix Synergy 2012 Booth 507

May 03, 2012

Adds centralized, rules-based solution to Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp to give roaming clinicians context-, location-, and printer aware workflow that increases efficiency, care and satisfaction

Denver, CO – Aventura today announced that it will demonstrate its rules-based clinical workflow solution at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference in San Francisco May 9-11 using Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. In today’s virtual hospital environment, Windows roams with the clinician but does not update the static persistent session as the clinician physically moves throughout the building. The Aventura solution leverages the virtualized environment by dynamically applying rules that populate the roaming workstation with the correct patient data and applications based on the clinician location. Aventura integrates patent-pending context-, location-, and printer aware technology with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop to map the roaming desktop to the clinician workflow. With Aventura, doctors and nurses have instant access to the information and tools they need, when they need it, from any workstation in the hospital.

New technology mandates require doctors and nurses to access computer information dozens of times a day. Computer sharing and long logon processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. As a leader in using context- and location-aware computing in healthcare, Aventura uses rules-based computing to present patient information intelligently to the clinician based on location and credentials. Aventura uses the same technology to locate and re-assign the closest online printer as the default, saving the clinician from having to locate a printed document. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives clinicians desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

“We are excited to expand our Citrix XenApp virtualization support to now include Citrix XenDesktop,” said Karyn German, Vice President Product Management at Aventura. “By leveraging the Citrix virtualization solutions with our own context- and location-aware technology, we can improve the way virtualization supports the roaming desktop. We give clinicians near-instant access to patient-relevant data and reduce the risk of medical errors. We also boost clinician satisfaction as frustration about hard-to-access data drops.”

Hospital IT professionals can experience the Aventura rules-based clinical workflow solution in booth #507 at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference or they can schedule a personal demonstration by contacting Greta Oberschmidt at greta(dot)oberschmidt(at)aventurahq(dot)com.

About Aventura: 
Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.

Aventura Selects Choice Solutions as Partner to Bring Improved Workflow and Productivity to Midwest Hospitals

Apr 25, 2012

Partnership Provides Rapid Access to Hospital Solutions that Improve Patient Care

Denver, CO — April 25, 2012 – Aventura today announced that it chose Choice Solutions with its proven strategic, technical and business acumen, to help improve workflow, productivity and implement integrated hospital solutions more rapidly across the Midwest. Aventura will partner with Citrix Platinum Partner Choice Solutions to give doctors and nurses one-touch access to the patient data they need, when they need it to make critical care decisions. Hospitals will have the ability to eliminate the multiple logins and replace them with a virtual desktop that includes one-click access to EMR and PACs data, email, and other systems critical to providing the right patient care at the right time. Choice Solutions customers and targeted territories include Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas.

“As one of the first companies to adopt the Citrix technologies, Choice Solutions has an undisputed reputation for delivering innovative solutions to companies looking to gain a first-mover advantage,” said Howard Diamond, Aventura CEO. “Hospitals leading their peers into Meaningful Use compliance are discovering that new technologies adopted without workflow optimization can hinder rather than help clinicians. They are looking to companies like Choice Solutions to solve this problem, and now with our partnership, maintain their competitive edge. Choice Solutions can help us help those hospitals integrate Aventura’s workflow solution into their computing environment, to serve up the patient-relevant data that doctors and nurses need from anywhere in the hospital in seconds rather than minutes.”

“We pride ourselves on being first movers in the market and on helping our customers leverage new technology to be more competitive,” said Jim Steinlage, President of Choice Solutions. “We are thrilled to be working with Aventura, which is leveraging context- and location-aware technologies in a totally new way to help doctors and nurses get at the information they need almost instantly to deliver better care. Working together with hospitals, we can make a difference in improving both the cost and care of healthcare today.”

About Aventura 

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.

About Choice Solutions 

Choice Solutions delivers a formidable combination of strategic and business acumen-backed by the highest level of product, service and technical knowledge with a bias toward none. Choice Solutions learns your business goals then creates application delivery and desktop virtualization solutions that will maximize your productivity and profitability. Choice Solutions tackles and solves the most complex business challenges with forward-looking IT solutions serving clients in the Central US since 1985 from offices in Kansas City, Dallas, Omaha, St. Louis, and Cedar Rapids. Learn more at http://www.choicesolutions.com.

Healthcare Leader Aventura Names Two Members to its Executive Leadership Team

Mar 28, 2012

Adds Sales and Customer Focus to Drive Hospital Adoption of Workflow Solution

Denver, CO — March 28, 2012 – As hospital adoption of technology grows to leverage healthcare reform mandates, so does Aventura’s leadership staff. Aventura, the company that makes clinician work flow, has strengthened its leadership team with the addition of Brian Stern, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Brandi Narvaez, Chief Customer Officer. These executives will help the company rapidly expand its industry reach while maintaining client satisfaction.

Four-year old Aventura fills a unique nitch in the healthcare space.  Healthcare reform has mandated new technology in hospitals to capture and share patient data, yet computer sharing and long login processes have made it difficult for clinicians to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives doctors and nurses desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

Mr. Brian Stern has joined the team as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing with more than 20 years of software and startup experience. Stern will use his career experience, building and running teams for early and growth stage companies, to build rapid market share through integrated sales and marketing programs. Prior to joining Aventura, Stern built and ran U.S. Enterprise Sales for NewsGator Technologies, a social business software company, where he and his team negotiated enterprise deals with large companies including Accenture, Deloitte, Citi, JP Morgan Chase, P&G, Kraft and General Mills. Previous experience includes management positions at: Aether Systems, a mobile and wireless data company, and Dataware Technologies, an electronic publishing/knowledge management solution. Stern started his career in consulting and project management at EDS.

Ms. Brandi Narvaez, MBA, PMP, brings more than 17 years of healthcare experience in project management, implementation services, and customer support to the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO). With an in-depth understanding of the clinical workflows and needs of care providers, Narvaez will focus on strategically aligning Aventura solutions with clinical workflows and processes to consistently meet customer business goals and objectives. Prior to joining Aventura, Narvaez was CEO of a professional services organization that specialized in identity and access solutions. Prior to that, Narvaez worked at Sentillion, managing implementations for large-scale healthcare companies and started her career in the health insurance industry with Delta Dental.

“With a proven solution that fits squarely in the middle of several mandated technologies, Aventura is uniquely positioned to help hospitals drive the improvements envisioned with healthcare reform,” said Howard Diamond, Aventura CEO. “The world-class leadership Brian Stern and Brandi Narvaez bring to the company will help ensure that market awareness, sales, and customer satisfaction grow together to consistently meet our goals.”

About Aventura

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses. We give clinicians the information they need, when and where they need it. Its context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. It also improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

3t Systems Partners with Aventura to Reduce Healthcare Costs

Mar 21, 2012

Greenwood Village, CO – March 19, 2012 — 3t Systems, a complete IT services company (www.3tsystems.com), is partnering with Aventura, the company that makes clinicians work flow (www.aventurahq.com), to deliver a solution that decreases healthcare costs by improving the productivity of doctors and nurses.  The solution combines 3t Systems hosting and implementation services with Aventura’s proprietary software to give doctors and nurses instant desktop access to the information and tools they need, when they need them, from anywhere in the hospital.

3t Systems works with large and small healthcare facilities across the Rocky Mountain region and will make the solution available to customers immediately.  The solution will give 3t Systems clients a competitive advantage by measurably improving workflow processes, decreasing computer entry time, and improving clinician satisfaction.

“We are pleased to add Aventura as a partner.  The combined 3t Systems and Aventura solution will be extremely valuable to our healthcare clients – enabling faster, more secure and more relevant access to patient data – ultimately resulting in higher quality patient care,” stated Ciaran Dwyer, CEO of 3t Systems.

New technology enhancements require doctors and nurses to access computer information dozens if not over a hundred times a day. Computer sharing and long login processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. Aventura’s clinician workflow solutions give doctors and nurses desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

“Finding the right IT partners is critical to our success as we drive rapid growth at our company,” said Howard Diamond, CEO of Aventura.  “With experience implementing complex technologies like Citrix across several progressive healthcare organizations, 3t Systems has the technology depth and healthcare understanding needed to drive wide-scale adoption of our solution.  We look forward to working with 3t Systems to make healthcare in the Rocky Mountain region more efficient.”

The strategic partnership between 3t Systems and Aventura will deliver a complete computer desktop that provides the instant access clinicians need to efficiently and effectively manage patient care, which will ultimately reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes.

About 3t Systems:

3t Systems is a complete IT services company, which includes consulting, managed services and hosting (cloud services).  3t Systems can manage a piece of IT or all aspects so clients have the Freedom to Focus on building their business.  Delivering these services is a team of accredited consultants, experienced project managers and dedicated client support teams with expertise in collaboration, managed services, cloud and virtualization technologies.  It’s this level of expertise and passion for innovation that enables 3t Systems to consistently deliver unsurpassed and measurable results.  Discover what 3t Systems Freedom to Focus approach can do for a business at www.3tsystems.com.

 About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it.  Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.

Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients.  Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

HIMSS 12 Debut: Aventura Auto-Populates Hospital Patient Record; Increases Physician Productivity

Feb 15, 2012

DENVER – Feb. 15, 2012 – Aventura, a provider of context awareness software for hospitals, will debut a major new capability at HIMSS 12: the ability to auto-populate the patient’s record as physicians and nurses move from one patient’s room to another. For example, a physician or nurse entering John Smith’s room will immediately be presented with John Smith’s medical record simply upon tapping her or his card and entering a pin.

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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Aventura Hires Fifteen; The Future Looks Bright

Oct 31, 2011

DENVER, CO. (October 31, 2011) AventuraHQ Inc., a healthcare technology company, has recently hired fifteen new employees, based on the current market activity and aggressive 2012 goals.

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.

Aventura Names T. Forcht (Teo) Dagi, MD, DMedSc As Company’s Chief Medical Officer

Oct 28, 2011

DENVER, CO. (October 28, 2011) AventuraHQ Inc., a health care IT company, has named T. Forcht (Teo) Dagi, MD, DMedSc as its Chief Medical Officer. The position will foster the company’s ongoing commitment to optimizing clinician workflow and giving time back to caregivers.

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.

Aventura introduces Distributed Session Brokering (DSB)

Mar 14, 2011

DENVER, Colo., MARCH 16, 2011– Aventura, a Denver, Colorado based healthcare company makes a breakthrough in healthcare IT with the release of Distributed Session Brokering, the first dynamic desktop framework applicable to non-VDI systems.

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.