HITLAB TEAM • December 12, 2024
Medcurio, a health tech company, is dedicated to enabling healthcare organizations to have complete real-time access and use of their Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to reduce the cost of care and improve access and quality. For years, healthcare systems have been constrained by inadequate interoperability technology. Existing tools are limited in the data they can access, how quickly they can be modified, and the specialized IT expertise required to manage them. These constraints prevent organizations from fully leveraging their EHR data to drive automation that could enhance care and improve operational efficiency.
Real-time access to EHR data is essential successfully drive most automation solutions for healthcare. Medcurio developed the VennU Access platform, a no-code API-building workflow that guarantees secure, real-time access to 100% of EHR data. VennU facilitates seamless data flow into applications, making healthcare automation practical, scalable, and transformative.
By addressing the critical issue of real-time data access, Medcurio empowers innovators to focus on using data to create meaningful change for both patients and healthcare providers. VennU unlocks countless opportunities to reduce costs, improve patient care, and enhance overall experiences. With VennU, organizations can develop solutions to optimize back-office operations, reduce provider burdens, optimize resources, improve clinical care delivery, and enhance patient support services. VennU thus helps healthcare organizations achieve long-term financial sustainability, enabling them to thrive despite increasing financial pressures on health systems.
Medcurio partnered with HITLAB to conduct a usability evaluation of the VennU platform. HITLAB researchers conducted a comprehensive assessment that combined both shadowing and hands-on testing to evaluate the platform’s functionality and user experience. The evaluation was conducted from multiple user perspectives, including those of an analyst, security administrator, and system administrator. Researchers shadowed an analyst as they built, deployed, and utilized an API on the platform, while also asking targeted questions to gain deeper insights into the platform’s usability and feature effectiveness. Additionally, the team conducted a hands-on evaluation of the demo version of VennU, allowing them to directly assess its capabilities and ensure that the platform met user needs. This evaluation followed Jakob Nielsen’s Heuristics, a well-established framework for assessing user interface design, ensuring that the evaluation was grounded in proven principles of usability.
The study identified several strengths of the Medcurio VennU platform, including its well-organized, intuitive interface and minimalist design. The platform provides a straightforward workflow for creating, editing, and consuming APIs, with real-time validation and clear error messages that help users quickly identify and resolve issues during API development. It also supports extensive customization and optimization, allowing users to adjust API endpoints and data processing for specific needs. The platform is equipped with robust safeguards that prevent API operations from affecting backend performance, ensuring consistent system stability and reliability. Key features such as the ability to mask sensitive data and dynamically calculate fields enhance its flexibility and overall utility.
Security is ensured through role-based access control and audit logs, which track user actions and any changes within the platform. VennU’s scalability is another key strength, with a flexible architecture that seamlessly adapts to the evolving needs of healthcare organizations. The platform’s change detection system automatically checks for updates to the EHR schema on a daily basis. When changes are detected, system administrators are promptly notified through dashboard alerts, enabling quick resolution and minimizing downtime. The study also identified areas for improvement, such as adding in-app help features, issue reporting capabilities, and workflow notifications to further enhance the user experience.
Medcurio VennU is a well-designed and innovative platform that excels in usability, user experience, data integrity, security, scalability, and system performance. It offers healthcare systems secure, on-demand access to comprehensive EHR data, enabling organizations to drive efficiency, enhance care delivery, and ensure long-term financial sustainability. With its unique capabilities, VennU stands as a transformative tool, empowering healthcare organizations and innovators to unlock new possibilities for improved operations and patient outcomes.
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Medcurio empowers healthcare providers with complete, fast, flexible, and secure real-time use of EHR data to drive automation, meaningful innovation, personalized care, and realize ROI from digital health investments.
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