DNV acquires MBI Healthcare Technologies

Global quality assurance and risk management provider, DNV, has acquired MBI Healthcare Technologies, a healthcare data assurance company based in the UK.

Together, DNV and MBI Healthcare Technologies will work to scale the company’s solutions in the UK, target growth in international markets and bring new data assurance technologies to the healthcare sector.

MBI Healthcare Technologies supplies healthcare providers with artificial intelligence-based technology and data quality expertise to reduce patient safety risk, deliver care more efficiently and bring down waiting times for elective treatment.

The company gives healthcare providers an accurate and quality-assured overview of who is waiting for treatment, when and where. Its LUNA platform offers a complete oversight of an organisation’s elective care performance, by visualising the status of individual patient journeys through their care pathway and scans clinical documents to uncover inaccuracies about patients’ status in their treatment.

Large batches of inaccurate patient data in electronic health record systems are cleansed, reducing booking backlogs. MBI Healthcare Technologies’ advisors then provide strategic advice on elective care performance, recovery planning, organisational change and technology implementation.

Liv Hovem, CEO of DNV’s Accelerator business area, said: “At a time when the wait for elective care and shortages of medical staff are at unprecedented levels in many countries, the solutions provided by MBI Healthcare Technologies give healthcare providers the means to stop patients becoming misplaced in the system and avoid the scheduling of unnecessary appointments.

“Managing healthcare operations is intrinsically complicated and data quality issues can lead to significant inefficiencies.”

Data and healthcare are intrinsically linked and sometimes referred to as a match made in heaven.