What Happened?
Rochester, MN-based Ambient Clinical has Appointed Drew Flaada as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Ambient Clinical Analytics is the creator of a software platform designed for data assimilation, communication and analytics. It is based on decision support tools initially deployed in the intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency department of hospitals. Our software consists of algorithms that mine data from electronic medical records (EMR). It then presents that data to the physicians and nurses so they may facilitate real-time clinical decision making and care delivery. These products are positioned as add on applications that are designed to easily integrate with the current major EMR providers. The highly fragmented global Healthcare IT and EMR market is expected to grow by 15% to $10 billion by 2015. Ambient believes there is a significant opportunity in this growing market to implement analytics based dashboard tools to reduce errors and improve efficiency. Our goal is supported by a $16 million CMS grant to deploy Ambient’s AWARE program in 3 hospitals starting September 2013. This software platform can be used in any data intensive hospital unit and is the perfect combination of “Big Data” and “Analytics”. Our analytical tools and suggested care checklists are unique to the current healthcare IT market. Ambient Clinical Analytics is supported financially by software license fees, SaaS, Cloud, and system integration revenue.
About the Person
Drew Flaada joined Ambient Clinical Analytics in May 2014 as its Chief Technology Officer after a long and varied career as an executive at IBM. Drew’s experiences include computer hardware and software development, product management, product marketing, and large-scale program management. He has formed and managed large international development organizations, as well as small tiger teams of highly skilled technologists. His most recent experiences included successfully managing a series of new “startup” businesses within IBM in High Performance Computing, stream analytics, and most recently Cloud Computing. Drew also formed and ran a 10 year collaboration between IBM and Mayo Clinic in applying information technology to provide the basis for Individualized Medicine. Drew is on the Dean’s Advisory Board for the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering, and is on the University of Minnesota Rochester Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology program advising faculty and Scientific Advisory Board. He holds a BSEE degree from North Dakota State University and an MS in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota.
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