Novo Integrated Sciences' Subsidiary, Clinical Consultants Int'l, Partners with Softhread for Entrance into the Health Care 4.0 Ecosystem for Smart and Connected Health Care Delivery

Novo Integrated Sciences NVOS is bringing a holistic approach to patient-first health and wellness through the decentralization of healthcare. The company’s healthcare ecosystem consists of multiple patient and consumer touchpoints for services and products that are being delivered through the integration of medical technology, diagnostic and therapeutic solutions, and rehabilitative science. 

A new era of health care delivery, through smart and connected applications referred to as Health Care 4.0, is rapidly evolving worldwide. Novo Integrated’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Clinical Consultants International (CCI), has partnered with Softhread, an information technology company with cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and blockchain architecture. Softhread’s technology consists of critical components to radically improve the privacy, security, and speed of data management of Health Care 4.0 related networks.

Not only do Novo Integrated and Softhread share the same vision for healthcare in the future, but Softhread’s technology is very complementary to the Novo Integrated ecosystem it is building. 

Softhread brings a new level of security to the rapidly evolving Health Care 4.0 ecosystem, that includes virtual, remote, mobile, and smart health delivery systems. Today’s healthcare environment demands increasing levels of multi-party, multi-site, and multi-device cooperation to diagnose, treat, and monitor healthcare delivery at all stages, from prevention, to treatment, to management and monitoring. However, the exponential growth of interconnected IT —- the Internet of Things — such as medical devices, sensors and wearables designed to improve patient care and outcomes also increases cyber-vulnerabilities. This mandates a novel zero-trust architecture to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks on all the connected devices in a typical hospital ecosystem across nursing stations, patient rooms, operating rooms, laboratories and pharmacies, imaging centers, etc., most of which manage sensitive personal health information (PHI). 

Softhread brings a modular blockchain architecture for the veracity and security of information exchanges among all IoT-connected Health Care 4.0 stakeholders. It leverages encryption and agreement among multiple servers to ensure the validity and access for devices and users across distributed data sets, on premise and/or in the cloud, with speed and verifiable audit transparency. Softhread supports the integration of smart contracting to regularize and ensure that process workflows are not only complete but adhere simultaneously to a wide variety of policy constraints.

“We are pleased to partner with Softhread in their entrance into the healthcare industry as it rapidly evolves into the 4.0 ecosystem,” said Dr. Joseph M. Chalil, Novo’s Chief Medical Officer. “Softhread’s proven cybersecurity, AI and blockchain engineering powers zero-trust solutions — enhancing any existing cyber-defense systems. Together, we are also exploring the integration of Softhread’s technology into Novo Connect, our proprietary mobile application, to provide a secure and reliable consumer experience.”

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