AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- BlueCloud by HealthCarePoint (HCP), a Texas-based healthcare and clinical research
networking technology company and Hospital La Paz Institute for
Health Research (IdiPAZ) announced its mutual efforts to globally
expand access to medical education opportunities. The collaboration
involves IdiPAZ helping to modernize sites by using BlueCloud's
global Delivery, Distribution and Implementation (DDI™) mechanisms
to ensure site quality assurance and transparency management of
professional competencies in over 167 countries with a focus in
underdeveloped countries including Africa, Asia
and Latin America.
The adherence to newly established standards has been on the
rise over the past couple of years due to regulatory requirements
in healthcare and clinical research. As a national institution,
IdiPAZ has led the way in improving care with standards as their
guiding solution to treating stroke in the neuroscience world as
well as other therapeutic areas. After scientific research and
institutional analysis, the Madrid-DIRECT scale and the modernized
version for the PedNIHSS standards of care were developed by IdiPAZ
to benefit patients care. The Madrid-Direct scale was developed
based on an observational study coordinated by IdiPAZ with the
participation of the Madrid Stroke Network (a collaborative system
of care promoted by the Madrid Association of Neurology), the
Madrid Regional Health System (SERMAS) and the pre-hospital
emergency system for the Madrid Region (SUMMA-112). The
Madrid-DIRECT scale provides guidance about the suitability for
endovascular treatment based on the information obtained from the
pre-hospital evaluation and on the needs and organizational aspects
of the Community of Madrid. The
assessment is necessary due to an international need for paramedics
and ER staff to adequately diagnose the severity of stroke patients
needed to be sent to comprehensive stroke care facilities in order
to avoid increased staff-care overload. Global healthcare and
clinical research professionals will further be empowered to
utilize the increased number of medical education courses from
dozens of institutions who are currently using BlueCloud's DDI™
mechanisms. With IdiPAZ becoming the newest members of the global
BlueCloud network, BlueCloud systems can act as the vehicle for
healthcare professionals to opt-in, own and globally share their
required credentials and competencies between research sites,
research sponsors and other healthcare organizations for business
and regulatory requirements, minimizing redundancies, fraud, waste
and abuse.
The focus of this collaboration also involves but not limited
to: 1) helping to facilitate the global expansion of Madrid-DIRECT
and the PedNIHSS by including them with well-established education
standards distributed globally within the BlueCloud Network. 2)
IdiPAZ's staff will also be able to centralize their research
accredited courses, competencies and shareable documents within
BlueCloud personal accounts and connect with organizations for
business and compliance in healthcare and clinical research; 3)
Blend globally standardized certification programs like the NIH
Stroke Scale, Rankin mRS, C-SSRS
and many others, with IdiPAZ education activities, and distribute
them to global investigator sites, national and international
healthcare organizations, continuing to improve transparency, and
human subject protection while following new GDPR Guidelines. 4)
Maximize healthcare professionals' educational opportunities in
underdeveloped countries to help sponsors, universities and
government organizations standardize patient recruitment and
improve inter-rater-reliability in clinical research to ultimately
save time, save money and save lives. 5) Provide smart city
building BlueCloud DDI™ technologies and approaches to connect
local industry stakeholders to the international healthcare and
clinical research community for business and compliance
purposes.
"The MADRID-DIRECT is used as a
pre-hospital scale for the measurement of the probability of
requiring mechanical thrombectomy, developed in close collaboration
with the Madrid Stroke network. It allows Emergency Services to
refer a patient directly to the corresponding Stroke Center based
on clinical examination. Furthermore, a training course of the
Spanish version of the PedNIHSS that was developed by a panel of
pediatric and adult stroke experts to fill the current needs to
improve the management of childhood stroke, will also be added to
the global BlueCloud Education Network," stated Exuperio Díez
Tejedor, MD, PhD Head of Department of Neurology and Stroke Centre
at La Paz University Hospital, Coordinator of Neurosciences Area
and Director of the Neurology and Cerebrovascular Diseases Research
Group at IdiPAZ, president Spanish Society of Neurology.
"We are very excited about this collaboration with such a
prestigious organization. This collaboration will continue to
expand BlueCloud's global blueprint with dozens of independent and
institutional members to further streamline the delivery,
distribution and implementation (DDI™) of initiatives in developed
and underdeveloped countries – Stated Al O. Pacino - President and
Co-Founder of BlueCloud by HealthCarePoint. We continue to prove
that when stakeholders place collaborations into practice, to focus
on patients first, we can modernize systems and ultimately save
more lives, time and resources. The effectiveness and outcomes of
the distribution of standardized processes incentivizes culture
change and modernizes the establishment by embracing real-time
connectivity as a method of increasing access to quality care and
getting drugs and medical devices to market faster."
About BlueCloud by HealthCarePoint
A global innovation providing Delivery, Distribution and
Implementation (DDI™) mechanisms, managed from a single point, for
all industry stakeholders. The BlueCloud® is a Connector Service
Provider (CSP ®). Nominated as one of the top innovations in the
industry, BlueCloud® is the first independent (real-time / single
sign-on) Professional Network for Healthcare and Clinical Research.
A global collaborative network and essential catalyst of the ACRES
global system, connecting all stakeholders in a common, secure,
regulated, private system. Available in 167 countries and used by
over 1.5 million healthcare professionals from governments,
sponsors, CROs, research sites, hospitals, universities, and
thousands of other healthcare and clinical research stakeholders,
using a centralized global system to connect, organize, centralize
and share verifiable information in real-time for managerial and
compliance activities. Now proven to save the industry millions of
dollars by eliminating redundancies, expediting study start up,
ensuring quality, transparency and compliance, modernizing the
industry and thus – creating a common system that leaves no patient
behind no matter what race, religion, socio-economic status,
political affiliation or geographical location.
About IdiPAZ
Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IdiPAZ) was
created in 2009 and is conceived as a biomedical research space
resulting from the relationship between La Paz University Hospital
(HULP), Fuenlabrada University Hospital (HUF), the Autonomous
University of Madrid (UAM), and
the Foundation for Biomedical Research of La Paz University
Hospital (FIBHULP). IdiPAZ works to become a national and
international reference in translational biomedical research,
promoting quality research at basic, clinical, epidemiological and
health services levels. Furthermore, our Institute is aimed at
favoring and developing research programs and projects or training
of researchers, with special attention to the scientific training
of professionals in research methodology and the needs of the
Primary Healthcare field. IdiPAZ's scientific structure includes 55
research groups distributed according to six strategic areas:
Neurosciences, Cardiovascular, Infectious Diseases and Immunity,
Organ System Pathologies, Cancer and Human Molecular Genetics, and
Surgery, Transplant and Health Technologies.
SOURCE Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research