Four-year old Aventura fills a unique nitch in the healthcare space.  Healthcare reform has mandated new technology in hospitals to capture and share patient data, yet computer sharing and long login processes have made it difficult for clinicians to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives doctors and nurses desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

Mr. Brian Stern has joined the team as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing with more than 20 years of software and startup experience. Stern will use his career experience, building and running teams for early and growth stage companies, to build rapid market share through integrated sales and marketing programs. Prior to joining Aventura, Stern built and ran U.S. Enterprise Sales for NewsGator Technologies, a social business software company, where he and his team negotiated enterprise deals with large companies including Accenture, Deloitte, Citi, JP Morgan Chase, P&G, Kraft and General Mills. Previous experience includes management positions at: Aether Systems, a mobile and wireless data company, and Dataware Technologies, an electronic publishing/knowledge management solution. Stern started his career in consulting and project management at EDS.

Ms. Brandi Narvaez, MBA, PMP, brings more than 17 years of healthcare experience in project management, implementation services, and customer support to the role of Chief Customer Officer (CCO). With an in-depth understanding of the clinical workflows and needs of care providers, Narvaez will focus on strategically aligning Aventura solutions with clinical workflows and processes to consistently meet customer business goals and objectives. Prior to joining Aventura, Narvaez was CEO of a professional services organization that specialized in identity and access solutions. Prior to that, Narvaez worked at Sentillion, managing implementations for large-scale healthcare companies and started her career in the health insurance industry with Delta Dental.

“With a proven solution that fits squarely in the middle of several mandated technologies, Aventura is uniquely positioned to help hospitals drive the improvements envisioned with healthcare reform,” said Howard Diamond, Aventura CEO. “The world-class leadership Brian Stern and Brandi Narvaez bring to the company will help ensure that market awareness, sales, and customer satisfaction grow together to consistently meet our goals.”

About Aventura

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses. We give clinicians the information they need, when and where they need it. Its context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. It also improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

3t Systems works with large and small healthcare facilities across the Rocky Mountain region and will make the solution available to customers immediately.  The solution will give 3t Systems clients a competitive advantage by measurably improving workflow processes, decreasing computer entry time, and improving clinician satisfaction.

“We are pleased to add Aventura as a partner.  The combined 3t Systems and Aventura solution will be extremely valuable to our healthcare clients – enabling faster, more secure and more relevant access to patient data – ultimately resulting in higher quality patient care,” stated Ciaran Dwyer, CEO of 3t Systems.

New technology enhancements require doctors and nurses to access computer information dozens if not over a hundred times a day. Computer sharing and long login processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. Aventura’s clinician workflow solutions give doctors and nurses desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

“Finding the right IT partners is critical to our success as we drive rapid growth at our company,” said Howard Diamond, CEO of Aventura.  “With experience implementing complex technologies like Citrix across several progressive healthcare organizations, 3t Systems has the technology depth and healthcare understanding needed to drive wide-scale adoption of our solution.  We look forward to working with 3t Systems to make healthcare in the Rocky Mountain region more efficient.”

The strategic partnership between 3t Systems and Aventura will deliver a complete computer desktop that provides the instant access clinicians need to efficiently and effectively manage patient care, which will ultimately reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes.

About 3t Systems:

3t Systems is a complete IT services company, which includes consulting, managed services and hosting (cloud services).  3t Systems can manage a piece of IT or all aspects so clients have the Freedom to Focus on building their business.  Delivering these services is a team of accredited consultants, experienced project managers and dedicated client support teams with expertise in collaboration, managed services, cloud and virtualization technologies.  It’s this level of expertise and passion for innovation that enables 3t Systems to consistently deliver unsurpassed and measurable results.  Discover what 3t Systems Freedom to Focus approach can do for a business at www.3tsystems.com.

 About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it.  Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user.

Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients.  Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care.  Learn more at www.aventurahq.com.

If you look at most healthcare entities today, the IS department is one that has to span every part of the healthcare organization and is the function to which every part of the organization looks to for support for their initiatives. As a result, the IS department has become a critical component for success, not just from a purely operational perspective, but in essence to support the strategy and direction that organizations want to take. CIOs need to be part of the dialogue in clinical, operational and strategic discussions to ensure that technology is not just being adopted for the sake of it, but is actually changing how healthcare is accessed, delivered and measured.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join your peers, May 6th – 8th, 2012 at the Healthcare IT Institute, which has been described by past attendees as, “An engaging and dynamic immersion combining thoughtful strategy and tactical resources relevant to HIT success” and the “Most productive, thought provoking and inspiring conference for senior level IT leader[s] that I’ve attended in the last decade”.

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Aventura. We’re a rowdy family of technology buffs hell-bent on solving an enormous problem in hospitals: clinical computing isn’t working for clinicians. Doctors and nurses are going nuts because their key software is slow as molasses and can’t even follow them around. What they need is what we’ve got–a totally new architecture based on one idea: technology should work for people, not the other way around. We have an awesome leader, a team that’s burning it at both ends for stuff they really believe in, and insanely happy customers. Only one problem: you’re not here.

What we’re looking for:

This isn’t your father’s day job. For starters, we want personality. We want innovative thinking. We want people who make it their business to bring some life to the party. Oh, and a superhero’s mix of humor, creative thinking, passion, tech savvy, and actually caring about making a difference in the lives of people.

Position Purpose:
The Test Developer will be responsible for verification, validation, execution and development of the Aventura software product to defined specifications. This position will be accountable for low level quality assurance processes including building unit tests, test plan execution, code documentation and entry level code development as it relates to bringing our software to market.This position is based in the Denver area.

Position Description:

• Design, document, research and learn the core code base of the Aventura software solution. Programming languages are primarily C++ and C.
• Design, develop and run unit tests against the core technology.
• Work closely with small engineering teams using agile development methodologies to qualify all software projects and functionality for delivery of the Aventura enterprise architecture.
• Ensure components of the Aventura solution meet pre-defined feature, function, reliability and performance requirements of customers and integration partners.
• Work closely with Software Developers to diagnose and repair components of the Aventura software solution using sound validation techniques and tools.
• Interact regularly with Solutions Engineers to ensure components of the Aventura solution integrate with primary applications in the customer environment. Ensure location-based functions of the application such as printing and patient census are functioning properly.
• Participate in research of new technology and validation and certification of tools/methodologies to improve the delivery and quality of the Aventura software solution.
• Perform formal software functional analysis and performance analysis.

Technical Skills:

• C++ Background
• Demonstrated proficiency in automated software testing tools/methodologies
• Complex threading models
• Memory models
• Unit test frameworks
• Junit, cpp unit, TDD, etc.
• Mathematical, analytic mindset
• Experience in testing web-based applications
• Proficiency in diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues
• Understanding of sound development and diagnostic techniques
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with Developers, Solutions Engineers and Quality Assurance Engineers
• Understanding of the Microsoft Windows operating system including Active Directory, Terminal Services and the registry
• Experience with virtualization is a strong plus
• Mathematical background is a strong plus

Experience and Education:

• BS college degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical field (EE or Computer Science).
• Minimum 2 years Programming or Quality Assurance experience with an infrastructure solutions provider, network solutions provider, or major hardware or software provider.

Personal Competencies:

• A passion for customers and a strong desire / interest to tackle a variety of challenging technical issues in a ground-breaking virtual desktop solution.
• Ability to work closely with an engineering team to meet schedule and quality objectives using the Scrum agile development method.
• High degree of integrity and honesty.
• Executes efficiently and is adaptable to a fast changing environment.
• Treats people with respect, is confident and decisive.
• Energetic and well organized. Pays attention to detail. Strong work ethic.
• Calm under pressure and able to maintain a good strategic sense.
• Listens well and is a good communicator.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to prioritize their work and that of others, as well as multi-task.
• Demonstrate proactive leadership in collection of information and work cross functionally to resolve broader scale issues.

Additional Requirements:

• May require some after hours on-call support

Benefits:

• Realistic, while not quite European, vacation
• Sick and Holiday time
• 401(k), medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Choice of RTD bus pass or discounted garage parking
• A great environment that promotes casual dress, a flexible work schedule, and the occasional work-from-home option

TO APPLY:

If you’d like to use your powers for good, send an email to: hr@aventurahq.com with:

• Your resume
• The position you want
• A letter telling us more than you’re looking for a job. 40+ hours is a lot of time to spend with someone, so give us an idea of what we’re getting ourselves into. Yes, tell us about your experience (including income history), but please also tell us a little about who you really are

Howard’s Insight

March 14th at the Hyatt Regency Downtown Denver

7:30 am to 10:00 am

Join Aventura and 3t Systems, Cisco, and Citrix for breakfast, discussion of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and  Cisco and Citrix Expert Q&A Panel.

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The team at Aventura shadowed physicians and nurses for months, noting the choreography when the work was really flowing—and noting the tension and interruptions when it wasn’t. CEO Howard Diamond discusses what his company learned.

Download: HIT Exchange, Vendor Voices March 2012 (PDF)

Join Aventura at the inaugural eHealth Innovation Congress

In June 2011 the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) introduced its Investing in Innovation (i2) Initiative to accelerate eHealth innovation nationwide. Five months later, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) Innovation Center announced $1B in new funding to support health innovation projects across the country. In support and recognition of these historic events, World Congress is proud to announce the World Congress eHealth Innovation Conference – New England, scheduled to take place on March 15, 2012 in Cambridge, MA, together with Boston considered the largest medical marketplace in the U.S..

World Congress Inaugural Event eHealth Innovation Conference

iHT2 case studies and presentations illustrate challenges, successes and various factors in the outcomes of numerous types of health IT implementations. They are interactive and dynamic sessions providing opportunity for dialogue, debate and exchanging ideas and best practices.

Aventura welcomes you to join us for a lively event and invites you to learn what Aventura can do for you.

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Aventura TechSheet – 2012