Connecticut Innovations (CI) has invested an additional $375,000 in SAMI Health Inc., a health information technology company.
Based in Westport, SAMI has developed a web-based, searchable database that makes browsing patients’ medical records and directions for treatment easier for health care professionals. The information system has been launched in Bridgeport Hospital and is poised to take off nationally.
Previously this year CI invested $500,000 of seed funding in the company.
“We are highly encouraged by the successful deployment of SAMI at Bridgeport Hospital,” said Claire Leonardi, CI CEO, in a prepared statement. “Having demonstrated measurable results in an established local hospital, SAMI Health is well positioned to make strong inroads with other hospitals around the country.”
Currently the system is being evaluated by the Yale New Haven Health system.
CI was established by the state Legislature in 1989 to assist and support emerging companies.
