ONC names KBCore winner of Patient Safety Reporting System challenge

KBCore, which developed and submitted for consideration a suite of unified web and mobile apps to collect and analyze event reports, was announced the winner of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Patient Safety Reporting System Challenge.

The Houston-based company developed KBCoreSM, a web-accessible analytical module utilizes an HL7 interface to allow data extraction from EHRs and other institutional information databases to populate and electronically transmit reports.

Runners up included IDInc in Clearwater, Fla.; Shands HealthCare in Gainesville, Fla.; and MidasPlus in Tucson, Ariz.

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