Sam Brusco, Associate Editor02.28.22
Butterfly Network has introduced Butterfly Blueprint, a platform to support scaled ultrasound deployment to hospitals and healthcare systems to better inform bedside decisions and empower an encounter-based workflow.
The Blueprint complete ultrasound solution provides accessible imaging across multiple disciplines and care settings. It integrates into clinical and administrative workflows for a clinical assessment tool at scale.
“Ultrasound provides valuable information. The ability to enable the practical application of ultrasound into the clinical workflow to inform clinical decision making is powerful,” said Dr. Todd Fruchterman, Butterfly Network's president and CEO told the press. “Butterfly Blueprint empowers an evolved point-of-care toolkit for hospitals and health systems—one that transcends beyond touch, listening, and surface visuals, and beyond habit-based imaging and lab orders. With Butterfly, clinicians across all disciplines now have a strategic tool that we believe allows them to see and know sooner, helping them drive better care decisions, efficiency, and outcomes.”
Butterfly Blueprint is complemented by optional software including Caption AI, which helps clinicians without sonography expertise capture and interpret cardiac ultrasound images. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems (CMS) approved new technology add-on payments (NTAP) for Caption Guidance as well.
“Deployment on the Blueprint platform is helping us fulfill our mission to put enhanced diagnostic capabilities in more hands and increase access for patients,” said Steve Cashman, president and CEO of Caption Health. “By integrating Caption AI with Butterfly iQ+, we’re expanding diagnostic toolkits for hospitals, health systems, and wherever a patient needs care. The insights provided by a high-quality ultrasound exam are critical for better care and earlier disease detection. Butterfly and Caption are making that vision not just a possibility, but a reality.”
The technology enables insights at the point of care via mobile-first workflows, preloaded presets, and device-agnostic software that integrates with non-Butterfly devices and other clinical and administrative systems.
The Blueprint complete ultrasound solution provides accessible imaging across multiple disciplines and care settings. It integrates into clinical and administrative workflows for a clinical assessment tool at scale.
“Ultrasound provides valuable information. The ability to enable the practical application of ultrasound into the clinical workflow to inform clinical decision making is powerful,” said Dr. Todd Fruchterman, Butterfly Network's president and CEO told the press. “Butterfly Blueprint empowers an evolved point-of-care toolkit for hospitals and health systems—one that transcends beyond touch, listening, and surface visuals, and beyond habit-based imaging and lab orders. With Butterfly, clinicians across all disciplines now have a strategic tool that we believe allows them to see and know sooner, helping them drive better care decisions, efficiency, and outcomes.”
Butterfly Blueprint is complemented by optional software including Caption AI, which helps clinicians without sonography expertise capture and interpret cardiac ultrasound images. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems (CMS) approved new technology add-on payments (NTAP) for Caption Guidance as well.
“Deployment on the Blueprint platform is helping us fulfill our mission to put enhanced diagnostic capabilities in more hands and increase access for patients,” said Steve Cashman, president and CEO of Caption Health. “By integrating Caption AI with Butterfly iQ+, we’re expanding diagnostic toolkits for hospitals, health systems, and wherever a patient needs care. The insights provided by a high-quality ultrasound exam are critical for better care and earlier disease detection. Butterfly and Caption are making that vision not just a possibility, but a reality.”
The technology enables insights at the point of care via mobile-first workflows, preloaded presets, and device-agnostic software that integrates with non-Butterfly devices and other clinical and administrative systems.