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BloomAPI helps health clinics phase out faxes

The Columbian
Published: July 24, 2017, 6:05am

Seattle – Fax machines have been largely phased out of many offices, but health clinics still rely on them. One Seattle startup wants to change that and help clinics modernize how they electronically share medical records.

BloomAPI, founded by Seattle entrepreneur Michael Wasser, develops technology that lets doctors send medical records directly from one computer system to another — no faxing required.

The startup, with five employees in Seattle’s Belltown, raised $2.4 million in a seed round of funding from investors.

Wasser decided to focus his attention on the health care industry after he sold his previous software company, Raveld, to Apptio. He got a sense of the industry and realized a key communication link was missing.

“Faxes tend to be really error-prone,” Wasser said. “A lot of times they don’t actually make it to the person who is meant to receive the record.”

BloomAPI’s technology works as an intermediary between doctors’ health care computer systems. The startup ensures that each office has the appropriate privacy permissions to send and receive records and that the records are transferred seamlessly from one system to another. Records appear directly in whichever electronic medical record-system the receiving clinic uses.

BloomAPI, which officially launched about eight months ago, works with 300 doctors across the country.

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