Lightbeam Health Solutions Completes Acquisition of Browsersoft

Lightbeam (Irving, TX, USA) has bought Browsersoft (Shawnee Mission, KS, USA), a privately held health information exchange (HIE) solution provider for healthcare systems.

The Browersoft OpenHRE solution enables healthcare communities to exchange data from disparate systems, thus enabling providers to have the most comprehensive, up-to-date patient information, resultign in better coordinated care, improved quality, and reduced costs. Lightbeam will integrate OpenHRE into its comprehensive end-to-end solutions, which transform data aggregated from disparate sources into actionable information to helpseffectively manage patient populations at a lower cost. Financial details were not disclosed.

“Lightbeam is committed to our leadership position in the population health technology space. Maintaining the lead in interoperability and data aggregation solutions is therefore a strategic imperative,” said Jerry Shultz, president of Lightbeam Health Solutions. “In addition to our extensive data acquisition assets, OpenHRE will enable the two-way exchange of clinical data and will allow providers to have the most current health information for each patient. The result of all this will be improved care coordination and a lower cost of care.”

“We believe our health information exchange products will enhance Lightbeam Health's population health management product suite,” said Don Grodecki, CEO of Browsersoft. “We look forward to working with the Lightbeam team and their customers, as well as our existing customers, to provide an industry leading solution that will enable providers to more readily exchange clinical data for the patient populations under their care.”

HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical information among different healthcare systems, facilitating access to and retrieval of clinical data for more timely, efficient, effective, and equitable patient-centered care. Among the benefits are reducing expenses associated with printing, scanning and faxing of documents, including paper and ink costs; making redundant physical mailing of patient charts and records, and subsequent phone communication to verify delivery; and reducing the time and effort involved in recovering missing patient information.

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