To support its growing brand of healthcare technology solutions, healthcare tech firm eVideon is looking for three to four new full-time employees in the areas of sales and marketing, software development and engineering.
“If you are a hospital patient and you turn your TV on, that’s eVideon,” says eVideon President Jeff Ingle, whose Grand-Rapids-based tech firm plans these new hires on the heels of nearly eight other new jobs created in the past year alone.
eVideon became its own business unit of education technology firm, Optimal Solutions, in the early 2000s when a group employees began to focus on video delivery over the data network - a pioneering project at the time, Ingle says, and one that other tech firms are just catching up to now.
“We started at Metro Health and one of the things about Metro Health is that they wanted what's called converted system,” he says, explaining that a converged system is essentially three components of data, voice and video operating on a single network — a vision, he adds, that was "clearly ahead of its time."
eVideon's system works by utlizing data from other applications already in place at the hospital such as the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), allowing for an interactive viewing environment where patient education videos can be personalized for patients based on their specific condition, diagnosis, or treatment.
The system can also customize HD TV channels, movie options, and includes relaxation videos and sleep aid sounds, to boot.
“There's the entertainment aspect of it, there’s the education aspect of it, but there’s also the service recovery aspect of it,” he says. “Instead of using the TV as a passive tool or a linear thing, it's an interactive tool.”
Ingle says eVideon will continue to find new ways to implement the system and evolve its uses, currently in the process of rolling out a new line of eVideon software on the conventional and touch screen swing arm TVs at the VA Ann Arbor Medical System. Built to streamline interoperability between the VA’s existing VistA Electronic Medical Record, the new system will allow medical staff to prescribe educational content within the EMR and as the patient progresses, that information is written back in real time.
The tech company recently signed a contract with the San Francisco General Hopstial, which will be the first facility to receive eVideon’s next generation hardware and software platform. The next generation platform will give patients, family members, and hospital staff the ability to access the Internet, play interactive games, communicate through video chats, request non-clinical services and much more.
“The thing is awareness,” Ingle says. “We’re making a big effort to enable people to know who we are. Our territory is not Michigan and Grand Rapids; it's the entire U.S. People haven't heard about us, and we really want to get more exposure out there so (eVideon) become(s) the name people think of when they’re considering putting these systems in.”
Visit eVideon online for more information about careers there or learn more about eVideon's interactive healthcare technology and education software.
By Anya Zentmeyer, Development News Editor
Images courtesy of eVidion
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