It started with a meeting
in Boston.
A group of clinicians, engineers, and scientists gathered to ask a question that had been nagging at all of them: was there a technology solution that could reduce patient harm by reducing the injuries caused by inaccurate decisions and inadequate care?
The problem they kept returning to was data. How could you design a data architecture that could be shared throughout the healthcare continuum — with the end result of improving quality and facilitating better outcomes?
The main challenge was clear from the start: the rules of proprietary business models and inaccessible data had to change. Every major device vendor had built walls around their data. EHR systems received information but rarely shared it back. Nurses spent hours transcribing what devices had already measured.
It became DocBox's guiding mission to build a solution that would improve healthcare and patient safety, be easy to use, and be based on a secure, open system. Today, DocBox is one of the only vendor-neutral critical care software platforms built to connect bedside devices, clinical documentation, Virtual Care, and hospital-owned data into one real-time operating layer.