Inexpensive IT health solution.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A new cloud based service introduced by the firm ZH Healthcare may be set to provide medical record-keepers with a quantum leap in systems technology.
Announced at the 2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit, which took place from July 29 to 31 in Bethesda, Maryland, ZH Healthcare’s “Health as a Service” (HITaaS) is a dedicated cloud based service that works in conjunction with “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) and “Software as a Service” (SaaS).
“In most of my conversations with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, when starting a Health IT initiative, a major component of costs is allocated to build out a solution or a minimum viable product to take to the market. Visionaries are spending far too much on building a solution that is not necessarily a great or unique … asset. By the time the solution is ready others have beaten them to the market,” said founder, chairman, and chief executive Shameem Hameed in an email to The American Bazaar.
“Wouldn’t it be great if a health IT solution could be built and deployed at a very low cost and time so that the entrepreneur can actually test his ideas in the market? Wouldn’t it be great if the entrepreneur could spend his time to develop only those portions of his [intellectual property] that are unique,” he continued.
Modern day Electronic Health Records (EHR) solutions have to be customized for different verticals, organizations, and countries, according to ZH Healthcare. The solutions also need to adhere to disparate rules and regulations, and HITaaS seeks to be an effective solution for integrating various devices and organizations.
To that effect, HITaaS is capable of managing all aspects of infrastructure, security, runtime, middleware, OS, virtualization, Servers, storage, contracts, and interfaces. Among its components are fully built software modules that can be customized without coding.
ZH Healthcare is the developer of the most popular open source EHR system in the world, OpenEMR, with more than 1,400 downloads logged per week. Through OpenEMR, ZH Healthcare serves more than 300,000 medical providers and up to 600 million patients across the globe.