Beyond Lucid Technologies Proudly Announces Four New Members of Our #MissionDriven Team of Innovators, During EMS Week 2023
23 March 2023
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As Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Beyond Lucid Technologies, it is my privilege to write this Open Letter, to explain why the announcement of our newest team members represents a huge step toward achieving our mission:
Our company has a rich history of innovating for the future of connected, interoperable Mobile Medicine. (We define Mobile Medicine as a “big tent” discipline that broadly encompasses Fire and Ambulance services, Critical Care Transport, Non-emergency and Inter-facility Medical Transport, and Community Paramedicine / Mobile Integrated Health-type programs.) I am privileged to represent our profession’s most sophisticated team of Mobile Medical technologists; few things get me more thrilled than realizing I am, by far, the least intelligent person on our daily team conference calls.
Since our founding in 2009, we have proudly achieved a range of industry-firsts, from NEMSIS v3 compliance to introducing speech-to-text and telehealth into an PCR. We were the first to enable real-time data export for consumption by hospitals and health information exchanges, and to build social determinants of health documentation into the 911 charting system. Industry leader Firehouse Software chose to license our software, and we help ensure that Fire & EMS agencies know their patients’ critical health needs — like that they have a POLST form — while at the patient’s side (or ideally prior to arriving). Something has changed now — due, I believe, to light shined on underserved communities by the triple tragedies of COVID-19, the substance use disorder disaster, and the realization that despite social media’s omnipresence, the modern world is beset by loneliness.
Too often, lonelier still are those who live among us who quietly among us — sometimes not so quietly, when they are at last invited to speak up. Their special health needs — which the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention calls “physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities, as well as long-standing medical conditions” — may not be visible. But they do need to be taken into account when providing care, especially during an emergency.
Special health needs not only impact the patient — they also impact family members, firefighters and medics, physicians and nurses, school nurses, public safety professionals, and the hospitals where patients may go during an emergency. Therefore, the next necessary step is to ensure that, during a crisis, Mobile Medical professionals racing to the scene are armed with context about the special health needs of those they may encounter, so they can proact (vsersus react). Hitting this heads-up awareness interoperability goal will reduce risks to patients and care providers alike, while making care delivery more efficient and helping to build a positive view of the healthcare ecosystem among high-risk patients from their youngest days.
First things first, though: we have to let communities of care know about the innovations that have already been deployed (or are now underway)— they need to know what’s possible now — so we can collectively shift the conversation from “wouldn’t it be lovely if X could…<sigh> ” to one that assumes things are possible: “How can we make X happen?”
The instinct to assume things are possible is the defining characteristic of our Evangelists for Interoperability. Three inspirational experts have joined our motley, motivated team to help stakeholders realize just how much impact put patient data into the hands of Responders, while they are en route to an emergency, can have. These Evangelists for Interoperability have bios that humble me to read — which I invite you to do, below. Finally, but very far from least, to help manage the excitement that comes when progress nears fruition, we are thrilled that a long-time partner-client, experienced clinician, and widely respected clinical-operational leader has joined our Beyond Lucid Technologies as our new Administrative Officer.
Please learn more about Amy Gaviglio, Erin Moore, David Moffitt, and Art Groux. Thank you — as always — for your efforts to assist your communities! We all know that you deserve so much more than just one week.
— Jonathon
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Amy Gaviglio
Evangelist for Interoperability
Amy Gaviglio (LINKEDIN) is a certified genetic counselor and founder of Connetics Consulting, which provides public health genetics, genomics, and rare disease services across the country and has been working in the newborn screening and rare disease space for the past 15 years.
Amy currently works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Expecting Health, and several other genetics and rare disease organizations. She is co-chair of APHL’s New Disorders in Newborn Screening workgroup and is a member of additional national groups including the Legal & Legislative Issues in Newborn Screening workgroups, the Rare Disease Diversity Coalition, and EveryLife Foundation’s Community Congress.
Amy also serves as an Advisor for the Midwest Genetics Network and the Innovations in Newborn Screening Interoperability Center. Finally, Amy serves as Chair of the NBS Expert Panel for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and is currently the Chair of Minnesota’s Rare Disease Advisory Council.
Art Groux, EMT-P
Administrative Officer
Art [LINKEDIN] was most recently Executive Director of the Bennington Rescue Squad in Vermont. Art has been a Paramedic for over 28 years and worked in EMS for over 30. During his career he has spent time in both the role of provider and management in both small rural systems to time with New York City EMS and Magen David Adom in Israel where he spent time working out of the Jerusalem office covering the occupied territories of The West Bank.
Art has been involved in many programs in the area of MCI preparedness and response. He serves as the Planning Section Chief for CT region 3 Incident Management Team and he has deployed with the team in that role to many incidents including the Clean Energy Plant Explosion and Sandy Hook Shooting to name a few. He also serves as a member of the Integrated EMS Response to Active Shooter work group as part of the Connecticut Capital Region.
Art has also authored works on EMS Management, and Trends in EMS, and co-authored (with Jonathon Feit) an article titled “The Brutal Math of Drug-Seeking Behavior in Prehospital Care for the Journal of EMS (JEMS). He has been awarded the CT Public Health Commissioner’s Award for individual impact on EMS and currently serves as the Executive Director for Bennington Rescue Squad. Previously, he was Chief of the Suffield Volunteer Ambulance Assn., and was responsible for facilitating a data sharing program between EMS and eight area hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
David Moffitt
Evangelist for Interoperability
David [LINKEDIN] has been a firefighter for 27 years. He is a Captain, paramedic, technical rescue team member, tox medic, and medical support officer. He has been a paramedic instructor, a curriculum developer, and has designed EMS quality assurance and peer review programs. He has assisted in the implementation of telehealth and other modalities of Mobile Integrated Health, collaborated with a hospital to deploy a Mobile Stroke Unit, and partners with Medical Directors, attorneys, and other subject matter experts on EMS policy and care guidelines.
Every day, David engages with state and local public health agencies, hospital systems and coalitions, managed care organizations, behavioral health systems, academia, and correctional facility health systems, as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and federal, state, county, and local law enforcement agencies. He is a member of a FEMA Urban Search & Rescue team where he is rostered as a Rescue and Medical Specialist, and is a Liaison Officer in a public safety incident management team.
David is also a member of the Brain Injury Alliance of Arizona’s Brain Health Advisory Council. He enjoys developing relationships with strategic partners. He has roots in operations, but continues to solve problems in support functions and program management. Every now and then he finds time to ride a truck and go on calls.
Erin Moore
Evangelist for Interoperability
Erin [LINKEDIN] is a strategic thinker with a proven track record of managing complex systems and providing strategic direction to leaders and growing teams. Most recently, Erin was the Vice President of Operations at Blackbird Health, a startup dedicated to improving access to precision mental healthcare for kids. Erin built the organizations’ infrastructure, fundraised a seed-round, and set up systems for compliance and success.
Erin spent 4 years working at Shift Results, a startup that brings together the disciplines of improvement science and human-centered design for improving systems and processes across many contexts, leading Operations, Marketing & Communications. Erin also has experience working for larger organizations. She began her improvement work at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where she launched the Cystic Fibrosis Learning Network, and then Eli Lilly & Co. where she supported the development Lilly Trial Guide, an online resource for patients navigating the complexities of clinical trial participation.
Erin is an advocate for ongoing learning and improvement, and has the ingenuity and leadership skills to bring people together and build community out of disparate partners. As a trusted coach and facilitator, Erin is always looking for ways to support others in reaching their full potential. She is deeply committed to supporting the development of solutions that drive innovation and improve the human experience.
About BEYOND LUCID TECHNOLOGIES, INC. and the R.U.S.H. INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN
Beyond Lucid Technologies develops software to inform Mobile Medical Professionals about patients’ needs even before they arrive on-scene, then empower them to share insights across the care continuum in real-time. Our Communication Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) software is patented, and packed with innovations that make Fire, EMS, Non-Emergency / Inter-Facility Medical Transport (IFT), Critical Care (Ground & Air), and Community Paramedicine / Mobile Integrated Health (CP/MIH) safer, more efficient and more cost-effective. Critical focal areas include addressing substance use disorders and ensuring that context like patients’ end-of-life wishes are available to emergency responders while at the patient’s side. BLT’s “prehospital pipes” connect the dots for partner-clients across the U.S., and in Australia and Puerto Rico, with 300+ hospitals on our MEDIVIEW BEACON Prehospital Health Information Exchange network.
We have been called “Silicon Valley’s Emergency Medical Technology Experts,” and deployed America’s first statewide registry of children with special health needs across Oregon. Winner of the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award for EMS Communications Platform, and awards from EMS World and the Journal of EMS. Our Co-Founder & Chief Executive was a 2020 UCSF Digital Health Hall of Fame nominee, and in 2022, he received a Civilian EMS Award from the California EMS Authority. Join BLT in realizing the vision of Mobile Medical interoperability: BeyondLucid.com and RUSHforChildren.org
CONTACT: Jonathon S. Feit
Co-Founder & Chief Executive
(650) 648–3727
