Glide Health: A Wireless and Mobile Company Worth Watching

By John Cox, Network World, 10/05/2009

From IT management services to Apple iPhone apps, mobile vendors are targeting enterprise users with some unique offerings

Company name: Glide Health
Founded: September 2009 launch
Location: New York City

What it offers: Mobile device access to electronic medical records, for both doctors and nurses and for patients. A subscription-based cloud service pulls data from third-party EMR systems, and reformats it on the fly for a plethora of mobile devices, operating systems, browser and displays.

Why it's worth watching: Glide Health offers healthcare practices of all sizes a cost-effective way to access existing medical data at patient bedsides or their homes. It leverages location data, auto-fill forms and other features to create a simplified workflow for highly mobile workers using a wide range of client devices.

How the company got its start: Glide Healthis a spinoff from TransMedia, which had created Glide OS, a cloud-based software layer to interface back-end databases and applications with a multi-vendor swarm of handhelds. TransMedia identified healthcare as a hot market for this approach.

How the company got its name: The name, from the underlying software, is intended to suggest the "effortless data transfer between platforms."