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cliexa’s hard work and commitment to improving our country’s healthcare systems has been recognized by the Office of American Innovation (OAI) for our advancements within the industry. The OAI, appointed by President Donald J. Trump, and led by Jared Kushner, has invited cliexa to attend the 2019 White House Blue Button Developers Conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, July 30th at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. We are humbled and honored to receive this invitation. We are looking forward to connecting and potentially collaborating with policymakers, technologists, and medical experts to advance the sharing of medical information through mobile technology.

We are one of the few technology vendors who have successfully enabled the Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Blue Button 2.0 API into our software platforms. According to CMS’s website, the Blue Button 2.0 API is a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to the applications, services and research programs they trust.” This API enables patients to sync their Medicare accounts to our applications and bi-directionally share the information, specifically claims data, to their providers, and care teams.

With this information, there are a variety of potential outcomes from leveraging this data, including streamlined documentation and the secure exchange of patient information which can lead to uncovering new insights about patients’ health status and increasing time for face-to-face interactions between patient and provider.

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Our first use case for this API was in our application, cliexa-EASE, designed for the Department of Health and Human ServicesAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality‘s Step-Up App Challenge. With this build, we were selected as one of the three winners of this challenge. The goal of the challenge was to develop an application that simplifies the process of collecting, interpreting, aggregating and sharing patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data related to physical function outcomes. Using the Blue Button 2.0 API, patients could connect Medicare accounts to our platform and share their claims data directly to the health systems’ electronic medical record system. Other functionalities including the connection and aggregation of data from IoT and wearable devices, electronic medical record systems paired with custom, mobile clinical assessments.

To learn more about the Blue Button 2.0 API, and the Blue Button Developers Conference, visit //bluebutton.cms.gov/

Image of the "Best Rheumatoid Arthritis Apps 2019" from Healthline Media
Image of the "Best Rheumatoid Arthritis Apps 2019" from Healthline Media

In a late May article by Healthline, cliexa-RA was named one of the “Best Rheumatoid Arthritis Apps of 2019.” For the second straight year, cliexa-RA has been nominated for this selection, receiving a perfect five stars on the iOS App Store and the highest average score among all apps named. With the extensive features, assessments, accuracy, and patient-physician efficiency included with the application, it is one of the most thorough rheumatoid arthritis apps on the market.

cliexa-RA is a specially designed app for tracking patient progress, medication adherence, and complications from the patient’s smartphone. It includes several medically validated and custom assessments for keeping tabs on patients and providing physicians with accurate and up-to-date information. The app can also use a patient’s medical history and statistical data to more clearly assess patients\’ rheumatoid arthritis progress and therefore help physicians accurately provide treatment plans. The outpatient data helps create efficiency of communication between patient and physician, cutting down on time spent at the clinic and providing more accurate care solutions.

cliexa’s platform implements effective Remote Patient Monitoring to optimize clinical workflow, medical billing compliance, and reimbursements. Accurate outpatient data is essential to the cliexa platform, with cliexa-RA being recognized for its capability to utilize Remote Patient Monitoring effectively.

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The Silicon Review's 30 Best Leaders to Watch in 2019

cliexa’s Founder and CEO, Mehmet Kazgan, is rated as one of the “30 Best Leaders to Watch in 2019” Mehmet was featured in an article highlighting his success as an entrepreneur, and business owner. Mehmet founded cliexa in late 2015 and has been working diligently to grow the company. Mehmet sat down with the Silicon Review team to discuss his experience as a leader in business, and healthcare technology.

Here is a snippet from the article:

“What is your greatest fear, and how do you manage fear?”

“My greatest fear is to over-promise and under-deliver, in any form, within a business or non-business related context. I manage fear by acknowledging it and facing it when the time comes.”

“What were the biggest initial hurdles to building your business and how did you overcome them?”

“Convincing others about my entrepreneurial approach and vision was one of the biggest hurdles. Validating the concept and demonstrating the outcomes was one of the ways I worked to overcome them.”

To read the full article, click HERE.

cliexa wins Department of Health and Human Services: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Step Up Challenge
cliexa is a semifinalist in the AHRQ's Step-Up Challenge

cliexa is a semifinalist in the AHRQ's Step-Up Challenge

cliexa is one of 10 companies out of 50+ advancing to Phase 2 of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)‘s Step-Up App Challenge with the “goal of developing an app that integrates standardized patient-reported outcomes (PRO) data into clinical care and research.”

For Phase 2 of the Step Up App Challenge, cliexa will design, develop, and demo our application using the FHIR technical specifications and PROMIS® resources for patient-reported outcomes with the hope to be selected as one of the three winners, who will get the opportunity to test their product in nine practice settings affiliated with MedStar Health in Washington, DC.

Read the blog announcing the 10 semifinalists from Director of the AHRQ, Gopal Khanna, M.B.A: https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/stepup-challenge-finalists.html

Check out our portfolio of patient-reported outcomes applications: cliexa Mobile