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Hoboken New Jersey and then brought that training back
into healthcare. During his time at the University of
California Irvine, he was the user of various social media
platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. He was
very fascinated with their technologies and was set to
implement the same kind of ease in data management for
healthcare. Working on this, he has innovated his way to the
top and led Clearsense to its success today.
Tracing Back the Roadmap to Success
Clearsense started small; they had just a couple of clients
who were Charles’ partners at the University of California
Irvine and Meharry Medical College. For Meharry Medical
College, the company built a data science institute, and for
the University of California Irvine, it developed a system
for real-time monitoring of patients in high acuity area.
With this, Clearsense brought all the patients’ data together,
which includes data from a clinical environment, laboratory
systems, etc. in real time. This helped make the clinicians
aware of the patients whose health would be slightly
deteriorating so that there can be intervention before
reaching any adverse conditions.
Additionally, the company has also brought in the legacy
data systems and made it available for folks in health
information systems. Another thing the company did create
and provide a platform for its clients involved in mergers
and acquisitions. It takes the data from the segment being
acquired and brings it into Clearsense and sends it to the
system doing the acquiring after adequate transformation of
that data. Clearsense does this in a very short period of
time, comparatively.
So, started with a few initial clients and have reached miles
already, it plans to expand further.
What sets it Apart?
The technologies used by Clearsense have just started to
creep in the healthcare market. Although the company has a
couple of competitors that have started to bring these
technologies in, Clearsense started long back and had
already adapted to these technologies. Alongside, it has a
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holistic team, which includes clinical professionals, data
scientists, developers, etc. This has proved to be a great
benefit for the company. Another one of its key
differentiators is that the company has not just learned the
technologies, but has helped develop them. This brings a
huge advantage to the business as well as its clients.
Clearsense provides a full-blown data ecosystem and has
made use of big data. This has helped it automate the large
part of work processes for its clients. Also, the company
allows the integration and synchronization of data in the
database within days and not weeks, saving a lot of time
and at affordable costa. It also has different governance
around the data and provides adequate security.
Life at Clearsense
The company fosters a free work environment. At
Clearsense, every individual is accountable and has the
freedom to be innovative and creative. The company
encourages its employees to ask questions and seek help.
“It is very important in a tech company and it kind of goes
back to you know, my clinical time when somebody new
enters the clinical environment, the most important thing
they could say is ‘I don’t know, I can’t figure this out,’and
we come in and help them,” says Charles. The company
also has a provision for the employees to work remotely.
There is also a culture of celebration in the organization.
What’s Ahead?
“We are very much in a growth trajectory. We are signing
up more and more healthcare clients as we go,” says the
CIO. This will allow its clients to collaborate with each
other. The company has already started to get involved
with Academia and wants to expand in it further. It is also
getting inquiries from outside of healthcare. So, it will be
potentially moving outside of healthcare as well, keeping
healthcare at its nexus.