Medicine Bow Technologies (MBT) provides sophisticated IT services to a growing number of small healthcare facilities in the Rocky Mountain Region. MBT offers advanced and seamlessly integrated software, hardware and network solutions for electronic patient management, basic IT functions and advanced technology solutions not usually available to smaller rural facilities.
MBT originated within Laramie's Ivinson Memorial Hospital as a response to the ever increasing configurations of hardware and software that did not communicate well either internally or externally. The goal of Ivinson Memorial Hospital's management team was to replace all of the disparate legacy systems with an integrated solution that would link all facets of the hospital's technology and information. Following extensive research and a 5-year plan, Ivinson Memorial Hospital established initial funding, appointed a Board of Directors, and formed Medicine Bow Technologies in late 2006.
Initially, MBT focused its efforts on deploying a Health Information System (HIS) for managing all aspects of a hospital and a Picture Archiving Communications System (PACS) that allows radiologic images to be transmitted to physicians for diagnosis. In the PACS system, images and the associated data are gathered together and stored in MBT's data center. These studies are made available to referring physicians over the MBT private network and the internet. Hospitals of any size can take advantage of this system due to the cost effectiveness of the pay-per-use structure and the ease of scaling. MBT currently has Ivinson Memorial Hospital and four other clients using its PACS system, and many hospitals in the region are connected to allow transmission of studies as patients are transferred.
Luke Schneider, the CEO of MBT, was originally hired in 2008 as the company's first sales professional. A Wyoming native and UW graduate, Luke was instrumental in developing MBT's partnership with Allscripts as a value-added reseller of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and practice management software. MBT has experienced great success working with Allscripts over the past 18 months. MBT currently has 22 Wyoming based providers under contract and is developing several key partnerships that would put the company on the forefront of EMR software in Wyoming and Montana.
MBT currently has 14 employees and additional staff in the near future seems to be a strong possibility. "We have other Wyoming hospitals that are considering an MBT proposal to operate their information systems with us," Luke explained, "and we are positioning ourselves to be an informational hub as the Wyoming medical community embraces electronic medical records technology."
Schneider believes being based in Laramie offers advantages for MBT and for other technology-based businesses. "In addition to the presence of UW and the Wyoming Technology Business Center," said Schneider, "there is a strong community of entrepreneurs and small business owners that work well together".
To learn more about Medicine Bow Technologies and their valuable product offerings, please visit www.medbowtech.com.
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