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BackpackEMR Swag Store
Interested in supporting BackpackEMR, but can't write a big check? Cloudburst has come up with a way to do just that! Cloudburst is a team of software developers who focus on startups. They have created a Shared Success Agreement as a way for development teams (or any...
Creativity is Needed for EMR Presentations!
What do you think the general reaction is from a crowd of medical professionals when your presentation is on... electronic medical records!? After 8+ years of giving presentations on EMRs, I definitely know that I need to consider my audience, and be sensitive to how...
BackpackEMR Winner in Healthcare.MN Pitch Competition
What an amazing night! We were selected to pitch at the Healthcare.MN Founders and Funders Pitch Competition on April 4, 2024 with several incredible healthcare startups. We had only 3 minutes to pitch our companies, and then 2 minutes for Q&A from the judges....
Partnership with Global Vision 2020
The world’s largest unmet disability is poor vision, and Global Vision 2020 is determined to help solve this major gap with a cost-effective way to provide eyeglasses in minutes. Their system is called the USee Vision Kit, and it includes an easy-to-use dial method to...
Honduran Medical Brigade on Local TV News
Friends of Barnabas (FOB) has been serving Honduran families for almost 25 years. FOB started using BackpackEMR to enhance their overall impact in 2021, and have shown many improvements in their operations due to adopting our portable electronic medical records (EMR)...
Telehealth in Guatemala: A Case Study in Innovation and Impact
In the rural regions of Guatemala, where poverty and malnutrition rates are high, a telehealth program is making a significant difference. This program, a collaboration between Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, BuildinGuate, and ER Abroad, is not only...
International Travel Tips during COVID-19
With all of the travel restrictions with COVID-19, we wanted to share some thoughts from the experts at Mission Nation on how you can best prepare for upcoming trips. Mission Nation has over 200 years of combined experience working with traveling medical teams....
Inspired at GMHC 2021
The Global Missions Health Conference in Louisville is quite an energizing experience! If you haven’t been there before, it’s a conference dedicated to people who are looking to bring medical care to underserved populations in rural areas all over the world. It was my...
BackpackEMR Web Portal to Manage Patients
We are excited to launch our NEW BackpackEMR Web Portal! Technology Now remote teams can view, manage, or follow up with patients between in-person visits using any type of device, like a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. And, the devices can be from any provider,...
Next-Gen Mobile Solutions for Modern Healthcare
I had the amazing opportunity to join Dr. Bertalan Meshko, Director of The Medical Futurist, in a Fireside Chat in this CXO Sync Event, sponsored by our tech-partner, Couchbase. We discussed how COVID-19 has changed digital health worldwide, including in low-middle...
Virtual Care Partnerships with Blessings and ACFS
GHIC 2021 - We had the opportunity to present a session at the Global Health Innovation Conference 2021, sponsored by Unite for Sight and Northwestern University, on April 8-11. Our session "Join Us! Virtual Support for Unlimited High-Quality Care" highlighted 2 of...
Q&A with Mission-Haiti: Using BackpackEMR in a Small Clinic
BackpackEMR was initially created for mobile clinics, but because of its focus on patient care and simplified screens, it can also be ideal for permanent clinics running outside of the U.S. One example is Mission-Haiti. Mission-Haiti has an extensive history of...
Binary Bridge Joins Social Enterprise Accelerator Halcyon!
Binary Bridge has officially joined the Halcyon Incubator for their Spring 2021 cohort! Halcyon is located in Washington DC, and runs a residential and virtual fellowship that "equips early-stage social entrepreneurs with the support they need to transform audacious...
BackpackEMR Awarded Project of the Year!
Couchbase, a provider of BackpackEMR's core technology, awarded our solution Project of the Year! We are so excited to receive this award after years of refining our offline data-sharing capabilities using Couchbase's feature set. Haven't heard about Couchbase? We're...
Sierra Leone: Seeing Patients Remotely with Virtual Care
Have you considered ways to help your patients remotely during COVID-19? Our new partner, African Christian Fellowship South Region (ACF), saw 250 patients in Sierra Leone using BackpackEMR's new Virtual Care features! The medical team included 5 physicians from...
BackpackEMR Releases the Much-Anticipated Virtual Care Platform!
We are excited to launch our NEW Virtual Care services to help medical teams get back to their mission of providing healthcare to underserved communities overseas. As word of COVID-19 spread in early 2020, we saw travel restrictions kick in. The pandemic was...
Webinar Recording: Tools to Approach Organization Changes in 2020
2020 has impacted non-profit organizations in ways we couldn’t have predicted. Travel restrictions, economic uncertainty and civil unrest have left leadership navigating significant changes. Therefore, leaders have to adjust their staffing and hiring practices,...
Brenda Henry Joins Binary Bridge!
Binary Bridge is excited to welcome Brenda Henry as our new Sales and Account Lead! Brenda has a 20+ year career in marketing, business development, and account management. In some of her previous roles, she’s managed consumer education programs for medical devices,...
TCSW Founders Panel on Lessons Learned
It's Twin Cities Startup Week! Well, "month", this time around. With gathering restrictions, TCSW20 is 100% virtual with sessions scattered across September, and that included our panel Lessons Learned While Growing Your Social Enterprise hosted by Ecotone...
One in a Million Award Recipient
We are honored to be recognized by Multiplying Good as a One In A Million award recipient. Awards are granted to people or organizations who are putting others first and using service as a solution to the problems we're facing. Binary Bridge is using BackpackEMR to...
Webinar: Think Like a Donor: Use Data to Communicate Impact
Impact Measurement is becoming mainstream for non-profits and social enterprises to communicate their impact to donors, investors, and stakeholders. In this webinar, Tim Roman of Ecotone Analytics joins Lori Most from Binary Bridge to discuss how Impact Measurement...
BackpackEMR Selected for gBETA COVID-19 Innovation Showcase
gBETA selected BackpackEMR from over 100 applicants to present at gBETA's Midwest COVID-19 Innovation Showcase. We presented with 13 other incredible startups who all quickly transitioned during the pandemic to support medical teams fighting the coronavirus.In March,...
Podcast: Building A Strong Bridge for Remote Healthcare
Founders Live has some amazing prizes for winning pitch competitions! One of our favorites is a podcast interview with the Nick Hughes, CEO of Founders Live. Nick interviewed Lori Most, the founder and CEO Binary Bridge, after she won the Founders Live Minneapolis...
New Innovations Post-COVID for Healthcare in Extreme Conditions
Now with the highly-contagious COVID-19 affecting the world, humanitarians can no longer travel to rural villages in need of healthcare, and if they did, they risk bringing an outbreak of COVID-19 with them. In this MedFuse Midyear session, we talked about how the...
Webinar: Fundraising in a Post-COVID World
Raising money is especially challenging when the world is experiencing widespread financial uncertainty, and donors are closely managing their money. We had the privilege to bring Nathan Ruby, a nonprofit fundraising consultant, to host this interactive webinar. In...
BackpackEMR Wins Founders Live Minneapolis Pitch Competition
BackpackEMR pitched with 4 other incredible companies in Minneapolis during the first virtual Founders Live Minneapolis pitch competition. We had live music by Immortal Girlfriend to kick off our live stream. Then each founder had 90 seconds to pitch our companies....
BackpackEMR Wins the People’s Choice Award at #CloudInnovateHer Pitch Competition
We were excited to be selected as one of 12 finalists for the Microsoft-sponsored Women In Cloud #CloudInnovateHer Pitch Competition. Qualifications for the competition included heavy usage of cloud technologies, which is something BackpackEMR certainly uses! On May...
Podcast with Upside: BackpackEMR Here and Now
Our CEO & Founder, Lori Most, got interviewed by Upside, a podcast show that examines startup investing outside of Silicon Valley. In this episode, Lori shares her story of founding BackpackEMR to help make global health mission work more sustainable. She also...
BackpackEMR Helps Track COVID-19 in Kenya
BackpackEMR is preparing for a rollout to track COVID-19 cases in Kenya. We need your help to fund the equipment we currently have in-country (20 iPads), along with sending 15 more! While we struggle to keep up with the COVID response in hospitals here in the US, the...
Venn Foundation Opens its PRI to Binary Bridge for Covid-19 Response
We want to thank our current Venn Foundation donors who supported us during our initial Program-Related Investment (PRI) round back in 2018. In the Covid-19 crisis, we have observed an increased interest in using BackpackEMR to support the medical response around the...
Partner Spotlight- Power of a Nickel
One of BackpackEMR’s newest partners, Power of a Nickel, recently made the news in their home state of Oklahoma! On their recent trip to the Philippines, their departure was delayed by a typhoon. During their extra day in-country, two nurses happened upon a mother...
Binary Bridge Awarded Innovation Grant
We are excited to announce that Binary Bridge, the parent company of BackpackEMR, was awarded an Innovation Grant from LaunchMN! Launch Minnesota is a new statewide collaborative effort to accelerate the growth of startups and amplify Minnesota as a national leader in...
Solving Big World Problems: Tech.MN Podcast
Our Founder and CEO, Lori Most, recently chatted with Tech.MN on her story of creating BackpackEMR, our portable, rugged Electronic Medical Records system. During the interview, Lori addresses how BackpackEMR is leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve big...
Why did we choose to be a Public Benefit Company?
Minneapolis, MN - Binary Bridge, the parent company of BackpackEMR, was reformed as a Benefit Corporation in 2018. Our Founder and CEO, Lori Most, explained how this model enables Binary Bridge to live out our social mission during an interview with Joe Donovan from...
Partner Spotlight – Flourish Collective
We are very overdue in highlighting a key partner of BackpackEMR's in the Flourish Collective. Our team piloted our new Primary Care module for the first time with the Flourish Collective in January 2018. This trip had its own unique set of challenges, not only as...
A Successful 2-Day Medical Camp in Nairobi
Nairobi, Kenya - BackpackEMR has had many firsts in the last few years, but our trip to Nairobi in June was one of our biggest. We ran a pilot of BackpackEMR during a free 2-day clinic at the Lunga Lunga Health Center with our in-country partners, Life Link...
Mock Clinics: Creating a Bullet-Proof EMR
Minneapolis, MN - How do you test software that will be used in the most remote locations, for mission-critical patient-tracking during mobile clinics? You need to run it through your own mobile clinic, of course! Software development teams know how important it is to...
Binary Bridge Received MinneInno’s Annual Award ‘Inno-On-Fire’ for 2019
Minneapolis, MN - We were honored to be one of MinneInno's 'Inno-on-Fire' Winners in Healthcare this year. This award recognizes Binary Bridge as an innovator setting the local scene on fire! Thank you so much to MinneInno and our nominator!! This year was filled with...
In the News with MinneInno
MinneInno’s newsletter “The Beat” included Maddy’s article on BackpackEMR. Check it out!! ---> BackpackEMR Brings MedTech System to Rural Clinics
Social Entrepreneur Interview with Tony Loyd
Want to hear more about Binary Bridge from Founder, Lori Most? Tony Loyd sat down with her to find out more about Binary Bridge and the story of how (and WHY!) we started. You can listen to the podcast here, or find it on iTunes, Google...
Humanitarian Technology Conference 2016
Boston, MA - HumTech was our first look at the amazing technology being implemented by humanitarians today. This is a passionate industry of people, and it made us excited dive in and never look back. We had the opportunity to display our prototype with the other...
Focus on Best Practices: Patient Follow-ups in Peru
Orthopedic Mission Partner Pucallpa, Peru - Software is only as good as the original processes we replicate and replace. So in automating patient tracking for medical missions, we look to partner with organizations who have adopted best practices, like Scalpel At The...
IoTFuse Conference 2017
Minneapolis, MN - We were excited to present CONNECTIVITY IN THE JUNGLE to a packed room at the IoTFuse Conference! This 1-day conference included broad vision talks, along with deep-dives into the latest technology in the Internet of Things space. “One of the...
M3 Conference 2017
Houston, TX - We met so many amazing people and organizations at the Mobilizing Medical Missions conference in Texas. We were one of 70 exhibitors at the conference, and the booths were busy during the 2-day event. The team estimates between 1200-1500 attendees – and...
Minnedemo 24 – Twin Cities Start Up Week 2016
Minneapolis, MN - We were selected as 1 of 7 from a group of tech start-up companies to present at the Twin Cities Start Up Week marquee event of Minnedemo 24. We were given 7 minutes to demo our product, and the most important rule: NO SLIDES! So with a lot of...
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