ZOLL Medical Acquires Golden Hour Data Systems to Advance Healthcare Interoperability with Integrated EMS Solutions

VCBeat (WeChat Official Account: vcbeat) has learned that on March 4, Zoll Medical announced its acquisition of Golden Hour Data Systems, a company specializing in aeromedical logistics. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

It is understood that Golden Hour, based in San Diego, USA, has been providing EMS (Emergency Medical Services) solutions to the market since 1996, with a focus on air medical logistics. Their proprietary EMS platform enables clients to efficiently capture claims and maximize revenue within the complex EMS marketplace, establishing them as a recognized leader in billing and reimbursement for the air medical logistics industry. Leveraging its comprehensive technology suite, Golden Hour has secured billions of dollars in funding for air and ground medical logistics programs. Additionally, Golden Hour is the developer of emsCharts, a leading cloud-based electronic patient care record (ePCR) software solution.

Golden Hour’s EMS integrated platform leverages over 40 years of experience in the medical logistics industry, offering advanced solutions focused on patient care, including emsCharts (clinical documentation), emsHIE (health information exchange), and emsRCM (revenue cycle management). emsCharts provides a leading clinical documentation solution; emsHIE delivers a comprehensive health information exchange service capable of integrating with large hospital systems; and emsRCM offers end-to-end revenue cycle management solutions, including billing and collections services.

The emsCharts service can create state-of-the-art electronic patient care reports (ePCR) for the medical logistics industry. emsCharts is capable of generating highly compatible and highly reimbursable medical record documents, optimizing and integrating them into downstream reimbursement processes based on data worth billions of dollars.

emsHIE integrates EMS clinical chart data from multiple vendors and enables bidirectional data sharing between EMS agencies and hospital electronic health records (EHRs) in near real-time. Additionally, emsHIE offers patient information services that aggregate data from diverse health systems and care settings, including the transmission of patient outcome data.

emsRCM optimizes and simplifies the creation and submission of medical bills to accelerate data collection in the air and ground EMS logistics market. By integrating proprietary billing services with AI-driven payment capabilities, emsRCM has advanced to a level of billing automation that ensures maximum reimbursement compliance and transparency.

ZOLL President Alex Moghadam stated in a press release: “Over the past two decades, ZOLL and Golden Hour have been providing complementary solutions for the EMS market. Through this acquisition, we will leverage the strengths of both development organizations to deliver next-generation, cloud-based EMS solutions to our customers.”

Moghadam added, “Now, both high-volume and low-volume EMS agencies can properly integrate patient medical records, revenue cycle management (RCM), incident reporting, and health information exchange solutions. Our acquisition of Golden Hour demonstrates our ability to continuously optimize clinical operations and financial efficiency.”

Kevin Hutton, Chairman and CEO of Golden Hour, stated, “The partnership with ZOLL will have a positive impact on our combined customer base. The services provided by Golden Hour naturally complement ZOLL’s SaaS platform and will accelerate the advancement of data interoperability in the healthcare sector.”

ZOLL Medical Corporation, a company under the Asahi Kasei Group, develops medical devices and sells software solutions to help advance emergency care while improving clinical and operational efficiency. ZOLL offers products for defibrillation and monitoring, circulation and CPR feedback, data management, fluid resuscitation, therapeutic temperature management, and ventilation.