Care Thread
Care Thread is a mobile health platform for care coordination and clinical communication among healthcare teams.
What Care Thread is
Care Thread is a mobile health platform for care coordination and clinical communication among healthcare teams. It shares patient-specific events such as labs, medications, reports, and dietary information as they become available through existing clinical IT systems. Care Team Mapping keeps a current roster of a patient’s clinical teammates and adds patient context to messages. Teams can use end-to-end encrypted messaging with priority, status, and read receipts, plus shared patient task lists, completion tracking, and clinical summaries for handoffs. Care Thread describes its messaging as HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant and provides administrative oversight and analytics about communication flows. Speech recognition is powered by Nuance Healthcare Dragon Medical 360. The system is described as system agnostic and is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Mobile app use requires an account from a healthcare organization that has signed up. Pricing is available on request, with personalized demos offered.
Good
- Real-time patient-specific clinical information delivery
- End-to-end encrypted messaging with read receipts
- Shared task lists and handoff summaries
- HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant messaging description
- Available on Android, iOS, and web
Watch out
- Pricing is available only on request
- Mobile access requires a participating organization account
- Designed for healthcare organizations and care teams
Who it suits
Care Thread is aimed at healthcare organizations and clinical care teams coordinating patient care, communication, and handoffs. Individual mobile users need an account from a participating organization.
Verdict
Care Thread combines clinical information feeds, team mapping, secure messaging, and workflow tracking in one platform. Its organizational account requirement and request-based pricing make it a service for enrolled healthcare teams rather than standalone users.
The facts
Each one read from Care Thread's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Android app
- Care Thread’s Google Play listing says users should confirm their healthcare organization has signed up before installing.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Care team mapping
- Care Team Mapping maintains a real-time roster of a patient’s clinical teammates and adds patient context to messages.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Mobile apps
- The Care Thread app is available for iPhone and iPad, and requires an existing account from a healthcare organization that has signed up.checked 9 Oct 2001
What it does
- Audience
- The product is presented for healthcare organizations and clinical care teams coordinating patient care and handoffs.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Audit and analytics
- The platform offers administrative oversight and analytics about communication flows across an organization.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Clinical feeds
- Care Thread says it can deliver clinical information such as labs, medications, reports, and dietary information to mobile devices as it becomes available.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Clinical information
- Care Thread says it can deliver patient-specific clinical information to mobile devices as it becomes available and work with existing clinical IT systems.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Compliance
- Care Thread describes its messaging platform as HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Intended users
- The product is presented for healthcare organizations and care teams coordinating patient care.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Messaging
- The platform supports end-to-end encrypted messaging with message priority, status, and read receipts.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Pricing and demo
- The site invites organizations to request a personalized demo but does not state product prices on the pages opened.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Product
- Care Thread describes itself as a mobile health platform for care coordination and clinical communication.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- Care Thread provides mobile care coordination and communication for healthcare teams, sharing patient-specific clinical events and information in real time.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Security
- Care Thread describes its messaging as end-to-end encrypted and HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Speech recognition
- The product page says its speech recognition is powered by Nuance Healthcare Dragon Medical 360.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Support and contact
- Care Thread lists its address as 127 Dorrance St., 5th Floor, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, and its phone number as 866-613-9335.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Support contact
- The site lists the phone number 866-613-9335 and the address 127 Dorrance St., 5th Floor, Providence, RI 02903.checked 9 Oct 2001
- System compatibility
- Care Thread describes its clinical information solution as system agnostic and says it uses existing clinical IT systems.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Workflow
- Collaborative workflows include shared patient task lists, task priority and completion tracking, and clinical summaries for handoffs.checked 9 Oct 2001
The company
- Company headquarters
- Care Thread lists its location in Providence, Rhode Island.checked 9 Oct 2001
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2001
- Headquarters
- Providence, Rhode Island, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2001
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