3D Bridge Solutions Inc. operating as Bridge Health Solutions (BHS) specializes in developing technologies to securely address compliance monitoring in the healthcare industry. BHS's product offerings support a variety of patient use cases such as medication adherence and vitals tracking for senior care, clinical trials, and complex or high-alert medication management.
BHS products are designed and developed by security experts who helped create the original Blackberry solution and the company has filed a series of patents to protect its technologies.
Leadership
Karima Bawa
Chief Executive Officer
As the former Chief Legal Officer at BlackBerry, Karima brings to BHS a wealth of legal, governance, and executive expertise for commercializing products in diverse geographies. Her leadership ensures that BHS’ IP and governance frameworks are robust, and the organization is poised to leverage its extensive IP portfolio for international growth.
Gary Mousseau
Chief Technology Officer
As an award-winning innovator and recipient of the Manning Innovation’s Principal Award, Gary, the founding inventor of the BlackBerry solution, has expertly designed a novel and secure system to improve medication adherence and tracking. Additionally, Gary designed a system to address the most pressing challenges faced by rights holders in the context of the 3D printing industry and a rights management solution for high-value file assets.
Our Partners
In The News
Bridge Health Solutions is proud to announce participation in a $5.2 million Consortium Investment to advance hospital level care at home
Updated December 11, 2024
The Problem
Patients who have been hospitalized for significant health issues often remain in the system for basic supervision and monitoring while they heal.
General ward care can cost up to $2,000 per patient, per day. Stable patients that could be monitored with at-home care take up resources such as hospital beds, equipment, and healthcare workers’ time, limiting system capacity for incoming acutely ill patients.
How We Are Solving It
The Continuous Connected Patient Care (CCPC) platform project, led by Medtronic, in partnership with St. Paul’s Hospital, Providence Health Care, Simon Fraser University, 3D Bridge Solutions Inc., Excelar Technologies, Cloud DX and FluidAI proposes a solution to this problem. The CCPC platform is a medical-grade digital monitoring solution, which allows patients to receive care safely in their own homes after discharge. It is intended to support safe and effective patient recovery with the use of data analytics, artificial intelligence, and home monitoring technology. This digital platform solution integrates with existing medical monitors and software systems for a seamless transition and continuous care, from the hospital to patients’ homes.
Wireless sensors, in combination with a digital platform and dashboard, provide a flexible way for clinicians to monitor patient vitals, such as pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature and weight, as well as medication adherence. Patient health data is securely and seamlessly transmitted to the hospital network, where the clinician can receive relevant patient data from anywhere in the hospital. This continuous remote monitoring solution also enables clinicians to anticipate and identify potential harmful events in real-time and improve patient outcomes.
Use of the Continuous Connected Patient Care platform will initially focus on adults with congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), especially in internal medicine and geriatrics. With the collaboration of patients, families, clinicians and industry partners, a strong testing and evaluation plan will demonstrate the applicability and efficacy of the Continuous Connected Patient Care platform.
The Result
The resulting CCPC platform represents a fully integrated solution to enable high quality homecare experiences for recovering patients, with the option for hospitals to customize its technological components based on their unique needs. The innovations and enabled experiences within the CCPC platform include:
Enabling near-continuous remote patient monitoring via the creation of Medtronic Canada’s wrist-wearable vitals patient data transmission and visualization to care providers that enables safe and reliable patient vitals data monitoring on an easy-to-interpret healing journey timeline. As of the project’s completion, the vitals wearable prototype created is ready for clinical trial.
Capturing comprehensive patient vitals with the incorporation of peripheral device capabilities from CloudDX for blood pressure monitors, scales, thermometers and oximeters; which are commonly required by hospital-at-home programs to monitor essential parameters also necessary for at-home care decisions. The project was able to prioritize the development of continuous sensing abilities within their platform; better equipping CloudDX to meet the growing demand for continuous patient telemetry in commercial remote patient monitoring and hospital-at-home deployments.
Giving clinicians the full picture with Excelar’s Careflow Orchestrator for interconnecting data and workflows across the systems, with readied capabilities of surfacing these data in the Cerner EMR in the future. Careflow Timeline allows clinicians to easily visualize patient information across the patient care continuum regardless of their location at home or in hospital, such as medication, vitals, anastomotic leak, medical/surgical procedures, symptoms and much more. Careflow Insights provides researchers and clinicians with privacy and security compliant access to de-identified patient data for research and clinical quality improvement.
Supporting medication adherence via Bridge Health Solutions’ medication adherence software to reduce medication errors by patients and increase their adherence. The resulting software was also ready for clinical trial as of the completion of the project.
Critical early prediction of anastomotic leaks via FluidAI’s Origin device and Stream App provides continuous measurements of wound fluid biomarkers to predict postoperative leaks during the recovery period – enabling a patient and caregiver-led process of maintaining drains at home.
Making sure it works through Providence Health Care’s critical expertise to ensure consortium partners developed their technologies in alignment with actual clinical needs in hospital settings, addressing gaps in workflow, and connecting to hospital systems and data via rigorous privacy, ethics, legal and security frameworks. The aforementioned clinical trials for Medtronic Canada’s wrist-wearable prototype, Bridge Health Solutions’(BHS) medication adherence software, Cloud DX integrated solutions, FluidAI’s Origin device, and all integrated via the Excelar’s platform will take place at PHC’s St. Paul’s Hospital and patient homes in early 2025
The ideas, collaborations and IP resulting from this project have directly led to additional follow-on DIGITAL projects, including for postoperative patient monitoring, pressure injury care and reducing alarm fatigue.
About Bridge Health Solutions
Bridge Health Solutions (BHS) specializes in developing technologies to address security and compliance monitoring in the healthcare industry. BHS's product offerings support a variety of patient use cases such as medication adherence and vitals tracking for senior care, clinical trials, and complex or high-alert medication management.
BHS products are designed and developed by security experts who helped create the original Blackberry solution and the company has filed a series of patents and provisional patents to protect the developed IP.
Bridge Health Solutions, “This partnership validates the importance of Bridge Health Solution’s medication reminder and monitoring solution Rem-me. With additional support from Jones Healthcare Group (https://joneshealthcaregroup.com/), Bridge Health Solutions will deliver an innovative medication adherence platform that prioritizes patient ease of use”.
(Full Press Release: https://www.digitalsupercluster.ca/projects/continuous-connected-patient-care/)
Privacy Policy
Bridge Health Solutions is committed to protecting the privacy rights of all persons it deals with and will take all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information.
This Privacy Policy applies without limitation to the collection, use, and disclosure of all types of personal information received through the following channels:
Our websites, specifically this website [https://www.3dbridge.io/] and the Altha Drug Management System [client.altharx.com]; and
The use of our product, specifically, the Remy and Nova dispensers and associated software solution
All interactions with customers, business partners, or vendors through phone, email, face-to-face, video conference, or mail
Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits our ability to collect, use, disclose or otherwise process personal information where required or permitted by law.
We control all the information we collect from you to enable us to provide our products and services to you. We collect information from you when you use our websites, register to use our product, submit an inquiry related to our product or service, seek technical support, or subscribe to our newsletter When inquiring or registering on our websites, as appropriate, you may be asked to provide information necessary to operate our websites, product, service or software. We may also collect information from you when you interact with Bridge Health Solutions through a pharmacy, business customer, sales associate, supplier, or business partner of Bridge Health Solutions.
We may collect information such as, but not limited to:
Your name
Your biometric data (fingerprint)
Your telephone number
Your email address
Your gender
Your date of birth
Health card number
Product usage information such as a dose regimen
Dose adherence information
In instances where you consent to having your dose schedule and adherence information shared with an authorized support contact, we may collect information such as, but not limited to the support contact’s:
Full name
Phone number
Email address
Bridge Health Solutions will not knowingly or intentionally collect the personal information of persons under the age of 18.
We will only use your personal information to fulfill the following purposes and/or the purposes identified at the time of collection (or for purposes reasonably related to those identified purposes). Your personal information may be used to provide our products and services, to improve and develop our products and services, and to market our products and services including without limitation:
to set up your dispenser and dosing schedule
to provide scheduled dose notifications
to provide alerts concerning product usage
to generate adherence reports
to provide technical support
for email marketing purposes or to receive newsletters. Please note that you have the option to opt-out from receiving such marketing materials or newsletters
improve our website
provide you with effective and responsive customer service
Yes. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on your computer or device when you access our website. They are commonly used to remember your browsing preferences and the actions you may have taken on our website. Bridge Health Solutions uses three types of cookies on our websites.
1. Essential Cookies:
We use essential cookies to enable us to perform the basic functions needed for our websites to operate. These cookies help us offer you the best experience when navigating our websites. They also help us monitor the performance of our platform and help us confirm that our platform is safe and secure to use.
2. Functional Cookies:
We use functional cookies on our websites to enable us to operate our websites in accordance with your preferences. For example, we may use functional cookies to save your language preferences.
3. Analytical Cookies:
We also rely on third party analytical cookies to collect aggregate data on site traffic, user interaction, and other analytical data. These cookies enable us to understand how users interact with our websites and help us continuously improve the user experience.
How to delete cookies?
You may remove cookies by following the instructions provided on your internet browser. To learn how to do this, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use some of our services, as some cookies are essential to navigating our website. You may also contact us at any time if you have questions on our use of cookies.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
This Privacy Policy only applies to our use and disclosure of your personal information. However, in some instances your personal information may need to be shared with third parties to enable them to provide a product or service to you or for your benefit. Particularly, your information may be shared with authorized pharmacists, healthcare practitioners, or support contacts to monitor dose adherence. Your personal information may also be shared with your pharmacy to the extent necessary to set up your dispenser, provide technical support, or to complete a refill or with your support contact, or a healthcare practitioner. In these instances, we do not have any control over how your personal information may be handled by the third party. Thus, their respective privacy policies and practices will apply. Any concerns or questions you may have on their privacy practices will have to be addressed directly with them.
Your personal information, dose schedule, and dose adherence information will only be shared with a support contact if you authorize a support contact to receive such information. You can revoke a support contact’s access at any time. If you choose to revoke a support contact’s access, we will no longer share your personal information with that support contact, however we do not have control over any personal information that the support contact may have retained prior to their access being revoked.
Bridge Health Solutions may share anonymized aggregated data with authorized third parties for research and analytical purposes, to allow such parties to assess the quality and/or usefulness of our products and services. We will never disclose anonymized aggregated data to third parties in a manner that would identify you as an individual. We will also never share your prescription or health data with a third party for marketing purposes.
We may use a third party to help deliver our website and/or service. In such an instance and to the extent necessary, we may share your information with a third-party affiliate or sub-contractor to help facilitate the delivery of our products and services to you. As these third-party affiliates and sub-contractors have their own privacy policies and practices, any personal information shared with such third parties to enable them to deliver our products and services to you or for your benefit will be handled in accordance with their respective privacy policies and practices. Any concerns or questions you may have on their privacy practices will have to be addressed directly with them.
We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we deem necessary to comply with a court order, enforce our agreements or policies, respond to an emergency that threatens individual life, health or personal security, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Bridge Health Solutions and our employees, users, or others.
Bridge Health Solutions may choose to sell the business or part of it to another company. In the event of such a transfer of ownership, we may share and/or transfer personal information in direct connection with the evaluation of and entry into such a transaction. Also, if Bridge Health Solutions is acquired, enters bankruptcy, goes out of business, or undergoes a change in control, personal data may be one of the assets transferred to, or acquired by the third party.
What security measures have we implemented?
We take seriously our responsibility to protect your personal information. This is why Bridge Health Solutions takes reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal, or from similar risks. We store your personal information in a secure manner and with restricted access. We also adopt appropriate security measures when destroying personal information.
Third parties acting on our behalf are not permitted by us to use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than is necessary to provide the products and services in question.
We update our security policies often to accord with technological changes. However, no internet transmission is ever fully secure or free from errors, and no security system is absolutely impenetrable. We unfortunately cannot fully guarantee the confidentiality of any information you share with us.
Location of service
Bridge Health Solutions is located in Canada, but we may use service providers that are located outside Canada. In some instances, your personal information may be processed and stored in another country and thus, may be subject to the privacy laws of that jurisdiction. In such instances, your information may be shared with courts or law enforcement agencies in these jurisdictions, if required by law. These jurisdictions include but are not limited to the United States or the European Union.
Your consent
By using our websites and/or our product, you consent to our Privacy Policy. Unless required or permitted by law, Bridge Health Solutions will not collect, use, or disclose your personal data, except where consent is obtained. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time by contacting Bridge Health Solutions and requesting this action.
You may request access to your personal information held by Bridge Health Solutions by contacting us. Where such a request is made, Bridge Health Solutions will consider your request and provide you with a copy of the personal information we hold, if any, unless we believe doing so would be unlawful or inappropriate.
You may opt out of disclosing some information to us or from receiving any future communications from us. However, in order to use our products and services, you may be required to disclose some information. To opt out of disclosing information or receiving communications from us, you may contact us at any time.
How to update or delete your data
Bridge Health Solutions will make every effort to keep the personal information we hold up to date. We will update your personal information to accord with any changes that you make, where appropriate. You may also ask Bridge Health Solutions to correct any information about you that you believe to be incorrect or incomplete.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Bridge Health Solutions reserves to the right to modify or supplement this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice to reflect changes in our practices. Should changes be made to this Policy, you will be notified through a notice that will be posted on the “Privacy” section on our website. Where significant changes are made to our Privacy Policy, you will be notified through a more prominent notice on our website, and possibly through email communication.
A new Privacy Policy will be effective at the time it is posted on our website. If you do not agree with any parts of the revised Policy, you may alter your preferences or stop using our websites and/or product. By continuing to use our products or accessing our websites after a change becomes effective, you will be bound by the revised Policy.
We encourage you to check our Privacy Policy periodically for the latest information regarding our policies and practices, and to contact us should you have any questions or concerns.
How to contact us: If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at support@3dbridge.io