25 Jan EBSCO Health Buys HealthDecision to Push Joint Decision-Making Tools
Cardiologist Jon Keevil’s decision three years ago to hang up his stethoscope and focus full time on his digital health startup, HealthDecision, seems to have paid off.
His startup was just acquired by EBSCO Health, a business of Ipswich, MA-based EBSCO Information Services, which provides libraries with access to research databases, e-books and e-journals, magazine subscriptions, and other content and services. The firm’s healthcare business sells digital versions of clinical books and medical journals, as well as software tools that help doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals find information to improve their skills and inform decisions. The purchase price for HealthDecision was not disclosed.
Keevil (pictured above) launched Madison, WI-based HealthDecision in 2004 while he was a cardiologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, aka UW Health. The idea was to build software tools that help clinicians and patients weigh the potential benefits and risks of treatment options to arrive at a decision. The company developed tools that retrieve data from a healthcare organization’s electronic medical records and present the information to patients in a way that helps them make a plan with their doctors. Examples include choosing whether to treat a patient with a cholesterol-lowering statin, or deciding whether a patient should get a CT scan to screen for lung cancer.
HealthDecision fits into several trends in healthcare, including advances in software tools to aid care decisions and get patients more involved in their healthcare.
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