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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Commure signs agreement with QLog to enhance Strongline EVP
Health technology infrastructure company Commure has entered a strategic collaboration and licensing agreement with Israel-based company QLog to power its Strongline enterprise visibility platform (EVP). QLog technology will also power Commure's staff duress, real-time location systems (RTLS), and smart hospital workflow solutions. Commure senior vice-president and general manager Dan Warner said: 'This partnership reflects our unwavering commitment to ensuring that frontline caregivers remain protected at all times. 'QLog's technology is best-in-class, and their deep domain experience makes them an ideal partner as we evolve the Strongline platform into its next chapter with reliability at its core.' QLog has experience in developing and deploying RTLS and duress applications in hospital settings worldwide. The company's foundational patent, WO2022/054055A1, issued in 2021, is central to numerous RTLS implementations worldwide and will now play a role in powering the Strongline EVP. The Strongline platform is currently safeguarding more than 230,000 healthcare professionals across the US, supporting health systems in protecting their staff and optimising location-based workflows. The partnership with QLog ensures that Commure's Strongline offering, encompassing sales, implementation, and operations, will continue to provide critical staff duress and RTLS services to hospitals, even as a legacy contractual dispute is being resolved in the courts. QLog CEO Amit Lehavi said: 'Our team has spent nearly a decade building precise, scalable RTLS and BLE infrastructure for healthcare, and we look forward to seeing it power Strongline EVP in hospitals across the US.' Powered by QLog's technology, the Strongline EVP is expected to be available to hospitals nationwide in the upcoming weeks. The system is set to integrate with the existing BLE devices and beacons in hospitals. Last month, Commure partnered with HealthTap to launch a comprehensive healthcare solution designed to integrate in-person and virtual care services. "Commure signs agreement with QLog to enhance Strongline EVP" was originally created and published by Hospital Management, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Strongline returns to market, signs deal with QLog to ensure leading staff duress offering is available to health systems around the country
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Commure announced today a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with QLog, a leading Israeli innovator in real-time location systems (RTLS) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technologies for healthcare. Under the agreement, QLog technology will power the Strongline Enterprise Visibility Platform (EVP), Commure's staff duress, RTLS, and smart hospital workflow offering. QLog brings over eight years of expertise building and deploying RTLS and duress applications in hospital settings around the world. The company holds a foundational patent in the space – WO2022/054055A1, titled 'Indoor Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Method of Operating Thereof' – issued in 2021 and central to many global RTLS implementations. Strongline currently protects more than 230,000 healthcare professionals across the United States and is the fastest-growing staff safety and RTLS platform in the country. Leading health systems nationwide rely on Strongline to safeguard their staff and optimize location-based workflows. The collaboration ensures that while a legacy contractual dispute is resolved in the courts, Commure's Strongline offering, including sales, implementation, and operations, can continue delivering uninterrupted staff duress and RTLS services to hospitals in need. 'This partnership reflects our unwavering commitment to ensuring that frontline caregivers remain protected at all times,' said Dan Warner, SVP and General Manager at Commure. 'QLog's technology is best-in-class, and their deep domain experience makes them an ideal partner as we evolve the Strongline platform into its next chapter with reliability at its core.' 'We are excited to join forces with Commure and support Strongline's mission to keep healthcare workers safe,' said Amit Lehavi, CEO of QLog. 'Our team has spent nearly a decade building precise, scalable RTLS and BLE infrastructure for healthcare, and we look forward to seeing it power Strongline EVP in hospitals across the U.S.' Strongline EVP powered by QLog will be available to hospitals around the country in the coming weeks. The system will effortlessly integrate and communicate with the BLE devices and beacons at hospitals today. About Commure Commure is simplifying healthcare by co-developing software solutions that address the many complex needs hospitals face. Through a purpose-built platform and a suite of interconnected AI-powered products, Commure streamlines workflows for providers, enhances patient experiences, and empowers administrators to increase hospital efficiency and profitability. Commure understands that healthcare is not one size fits all, so Commure's team of engineers collaborate directly with clinicians and healthcare teams to design customized solutions that address their specific needs. In this way, Commure enables health systems to reduce clinician burnout, improve care quality, and lead the healthcare transformation. By unifying and streamlining fragmented systems, we are building the health systems of the future – together. About QLog In the complex world of healthcare, simplicity is revolutionary. QLog builds technology that transforms the everyday realities of hospitals into safer, smarter, more connected environments. By harnessing the power of precision engineering and digital innovation, QLog helps healthcare organizations bridge operational gaps, foster real-time collaboration, and reimagine what's possible in care delivery. Contact Information Kaila Grafeman Public Relations [email protected]
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Strongline returns to market, signs deal with QLog to ensure leading staff duress offering is available to health systems around the country
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Commure announced today a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with QLog, a leading Israeli innovator in real-time location systems (RTLS) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technologies for healthcare. Under the agreement, QLog technology will power the Strongline Enterprise Visibility Platform (EVP), Commure's staff duress, RTLS, and smart hospital workflow offering. QLog brings over eight years of expertise building and deploying RTLS and duress applications in hospital settings around the world. The company holds a foundational patent in the space – WO2022/054055A1, titled 'Indoor Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Method of Operating Thereof' – issued in 2021 and central to many global RTLS implementations. Strongline currently protects more than 230,000 healthcare professionals across the United States and is the fastest-growing staff safety and RTLS platform in the country. Leading health systems nationwide rely on Strongline to safeguard their staff and optimize location-based workflows. The collaboration ensures that while a legacy contractual dispute is resolved in the courts, Commure's Strongline offering, including sales, implementation, and operations, can continue delivering uninterrupted staff duress and RTLS services to hospitals in need. 'This partnership reflects our unwavering commitment to ensuring that frontline caregivers remain protected at all times,' said Dan Warner, SVP and General Manager at Commure. 'QLog's technology is best-in-class, and their deep domain experience makes them an ideal partner as we evolve the Strongline platform into its next chapter with reliability at its core.' 'We are excited to join forces with Commure and support Strongline's mission to keep healthcare workers safe,' said Amit Lehavi, CEO of QLog. 'Our team has spent nearly a decade building precise, scalable RTLS and BLE infrastructure for healthcare, and we look forward to seeing it power Strongline EVP in hospitals across the U.S.' Strongline EVP powered by QLog will be available to hospitals around the country in the coming weeks. The system will effortlessly integrate and communicate with the BLE devices and beacons at hospitals today. About CommureCommure is simplifying healthcare by co-developing software solutions that address the many complex needs hospitals face. Through a purpose-built platform and a suite of interconnected AI-powered products, Commure streamlines workflows for providers, enhances patient experiences, and empowers administrators to increase hospital efficiency and profitability. Commure understands that healthcare is not one size fits all, so Commure's team of engineers collaborate directly with clinicians and healthcare teams to design customized solutions that address their specific needs. In this way, Commure enables health systems to reduce clinician burnout, improve care quality, and lead the healthcare transformation. By unifying and streamlining fragmented systems, we are building the health systems of the future – together. About QLogIn the complex world of healthcare, simplicity is revolutionary. QLog builds technology that transforms the everyday realities of hospitals into safer, smarter, more connected environments. By harnessing the power of precision engineering and digital innovation, QLog helps healthcare organizations bridge operational gaps, foster real-time collaboration, and reimagine what's possible in care delivery. Contact InformationKaila GrafemanPublic Relationspr@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Insider
13-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
$6 billion Commure was just ordered to stop selling a hot healthtech product in its latest legal challenge
$6 billion healthcare startup Commure has been ordered to stop making one of its most historically successful products in a legal face-off with the tech's creators. Commure, the startup cofounded by General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja and incubated by the VC firm, has been embroiled in legal turmoil for over a year with the makers of its former workplace safety tech, Strongline. Canopy Works created the technology behind Strongline, a wearable panic button for hospital staff that was once Commure's best-selling product. Canopy severed its ties with Commure in 2023, after which Commure released an "upgrade" to Strongline called Strongline Pro. Canopy alleged in a lawsuit against Commure in the Northern District of California that Commure's Strongline Pro was a derivative of Canopy's Strongline, which violated the companies' contract. Now, a federal district court has sided with Canopy and ordered Commure to stop selling Strongline Pro. The court's preliminary injunction, filed on April 25 in the Northern District of California and made public Friday afternoon, prohibits Commure from distributing or marketing Strongline Pro to new customers, at least while the underlying breach of contract case proceeds. It's a big win for Canopy, which says it's lost business as hospital customers "upgrade" from Canopy's Strongline to Commure's Strongline Pro. Strongline's business was Commure's sole growing revenue source at the time of its $6 billion merger with fellow General Catalyst portfolio company Athelas, as Business Insider reported in September. It's unclear how much revenue Strongline Pro now contributes to Commure or how much that revenue could be affected by the court order. "This injunction validates the years of dedicated R&D and significant investment Canopy has poured into its unique healthcare safety platform," A Canopy spokesperson said in a statement to BI. "This ruling provides certainty for our customers, confirming they are partnered with the creator of this technology and can trust the integrity and performance of the Canopy system safeguarding their employees." Commure has asked the court to delay the injunction's enforcement. In a statement to BI, Commure SVP and General Manager Dan Warner said he expects the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the injunction, adding that "the law and facts are firmly on Commure's side," and that Commure developed Strongline Pro entirely in-house. For its part, Commure has expanded well beyond its workplace safety product in the past year. The startup has signaled its intentions to dig deeper into healthcare AI following its acquisition of revenue cycle management company Athelas, buying ambient scribing company Augmedix in July 2024 for $139 million in cash, and scooping up another General Catalyst portfolio company, AI-powered care coordination platform Memora Health, in December. General Catalyst is also closing a deal to buy Akron, Ohio-based health system Summa Health. The firm has said it plans to integrate healthcare technology into the hospitals' operations, an endeavor that would likely include Commure's tech. Commure's battle with Canopy Commure and Canopy created their first agreement to make Commure a reseller of Canopy's technology in 2019. In 2022, Commure bought the rights to white-label and sell Strongline's wearable panic buttons for hospital staff. Canopy Works, then known as SMP Labs, remained a separate company and retained ownership of the intellectual property. Tensions quickly escalated after the acquisition. In late 2022, Commure sued Canopy when the company tried to terminate its partnership with Commure. Canopy had cited delayed payments as a reason for breaking away from the startup. That lawsuit was dismissed and later settled, but the damage was done. By December 2023, Canopy spun out for good as a new company to sell its safety technology directly to health systems. Commure moved quickly to rebuild its workplace safety business, launching Strongline Pro just days after Canopy's debut. Commure positioned Strongline Pro as a successor to the original Strongline product, although filings with federal regulators showed substantial similarities between the two devices, per BI's September reporting. Commure holds that "Strongline Pro was developed independently by Commure without using any information from Canopy," per the Friday injunction. After Canopy's exodus, Commure filed a lawsuit against Canopy in April 2024, alleging that Commure had contributed to the development of Strongline's original concept and that Canopy had violated its contractual obligations to provide its tech to Commure through the end of the year. Commure also raised concerns about alleged security vulnerabilities in Canopy's technology. As ordered in the injunction, existing Strongline Pro customers can continue to use Strongline Pro, but Commure cannot upgrade those systems or contract with new Strongline Pro customers. In his statement to BI, Commure's Warner also referenced a prior civil decision in which he said a judge ruled that a Canopy employee, who previously worked at Commure, had misappropriated Commure's confidential information for Canopy's benefit. Warner said the ruling "confirms that Commure, not Canopy, is the party harmed in this dispute." BI could not independently review the filing as it has not been made public. A Canopy spokesperson said in response that the arbitration was a separate issue with one of Commure's former employees that is "completely unrelated to the ongoing litigation with Canopy."
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Athelas and Resilient Healthcare to launch programme for hospital billing
US-based Resilient Healthcare has partnered with Athelas, powered by Commure, to transform outpatient care and hospital billing through the launch of a pilot programme. By choosing Athelas as its preferred vendor for revenue cycle management (RCM) and electronic medical records (EMR) solutions, Resilient Healthcare is set to enhance operations for acute and outpatient hospital-at-home programmes. This will contribute to scalability and integration across healthcare systems. The pilot programme will see Athelas providing Ambient AI support, RCM services, and EMR integration with Resilient Community's RAIN AI platform. With its numerous hospital clients, Resilient Healthcare will test the combined technology to demonstrate the benefits of transferring outpatient services and billing processes away from conventional hospital systems. The use of advanced software integration and data exchange is expected to drive care delivery directly to patient homes. Athelas CEO Tanay Tandon said: 'Athelas is thrilled to partner with Resilient Healthcare to expand access to high-quality, innovative technology to provide the best patient care possible. "Together, we empower healthcare providers with the tools they need to effectively deliver health-at-home care for improved patient outcomes and operational efficiency." The partnership between Resilient Healthcare's health-at-home solutions and Athelas' EMR and RCM technologies is structured to support the former's growth into new hospital systems while maintaining consistent service delivery and compliance. Resilient Healthcare CEO Dr Jackleen Samuel-Kloes said: 'We are excited to partner with Athelas to bring innovative, AI-driven solutions to the forefront of patient care. "At Resilient, our mission is to provide proactive, personalised healthcare that improves patient outcomes and enhances the efficiency of care delivery in the home. This partnership with Athelas allows us to leverage cutting-edge technology to support our patients better and empower our healthcare teams to deliver exceptional care." "Athelas and Resilient Healthcare to launch programme for hospital billing" was originally created and published by Hospital Management, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
