Collaborative Fusion
{{Infobox company
| name = Collaborative Fusion
| logo =
| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Incident Management
| fate = Acquired by Intermedix Corporation in 2011
| predecessor =
| successor = Juvare, LLC
| founded = {{start date and age|2001}}
| founder =Bryan Kaplan and Atila Omer
| defunct =
| hq_location_city = Pittsburgh (2011–2018)
Atlanta (2018–present)
| hq_location_country = United States
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| key_people =
| products = Software
| owner = Thomas H. Lee Partners
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| parent = Juvare, LLC
| website = {{URL|https://www.juvare.com}}
}}
Collaborative Fusion, Inc. (CFI) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based provider of ESAR-VHP and incident management software for coordination of emergency personnel. Collaborative Fusion is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Juvare, LLC, a firm owned by private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.
History
CFI was founded in 2001; its president and vice president were founders Atila Omer and Bryan Kaplan, respectively.{{citation|title=Bryan Kaplan is an entrepreneurial veteran at age 22|last=Guzzo|first=Maria|date=2003-09-19|accessdate=2008-05-09|periodical=Pittsburgh Business Times|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/09/22/smallb1.html}}{{citation|title=Moser building leased|periodical=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review|date=2007-12-22|accessdate=2008-05-09|url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/briefs/s_544008.html}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Omer and Kaplan were both alumni of Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, Kaplan graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. Omer, a graduate of Wayne State University, previously worked at JPMorgan Chase before attending Carnegie Mellon's MBA program and subsequently co-founding Collaborative Fusion.{{citation|title=Corporate Strategic Advisors: Atila Omer|publisher=Mobile Discovery|date=2007|accessdate=2008-05-21|url=http://www.mobilediscovery.com/md/corporate/AtilaOmer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423062501/http://www.mobilediscovery.com/md/corporate/AtilaOmer.html|archive-date=2008-04-23|url-status=dead}}
At the beginning of 2008, CFI moved into its new corporate headquarters offices on 5849 Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania.
=Juvare acquisition=
On September 19, 2011, the Intermedix Corporation, a Florida-based healthcare technology provider, announced that it had acquired Collaborative Fusion.{{Cite news|url=https://www.intermedix.com/news/intermedix-acquires-collaborative-fusion-inc|title=Intermedix Acquires Collaborative Fusion, Inc.|last=Osborne|first=Lisa|access-date=2016-12-02|website=Intermedix.com}} Following the spin-off of Intermedix Corporation and Juvare, LLC in May, 2018, Collaborative Fusion, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Juvare, LLC, a firm owned by private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/intermedix_to_spin_off_emergency_preparedness_and_response_division/prweb15246892.htm|title=Intermedix to Spin Off Emergency Preparedness and Response Division|last=OSBORNE|first=Lisa|date=February 27, 2018|website=PRWeb}}
Services
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Juvare began operations in 2018.
The company operates on a global scale, working with emergency and incident response teams from federal, state, and local agencies. In an emergency, Juvare solutions are used by incident management teams to coordinate and respond to natural and man-made disasters, providing solutions to emergency management and incident team members.
Juvare’s platform solutions are used in multiple industries such as: aviation, corporate enterprise, education, emergency and incident management, energy and utilities, federal agencies, government defense, healthcare, public health, state and local government agencies, and transportation.
Juvare’s WebEOC platform is the most widely used incident management solution in the industry.{{cn|date=October 2024}} The system was used to help coordinate and prepare EMS in Atlanta, Georgia, for Super Bowl LIII, held on Feb. 3, 2019, when over 1 million visitors came to the city. Using Juvare’s solution, key personnel were able to plan for the event, monitor incidents, and relay pertinent information to EMS (emergency medical services), firefighters, hospital staff, state and local police, and federal government agencies regarding emergencies and crisis incidents, also helping to coordinate supplies and labor power to specific locations, and ambulances to local hospitals.
Other Juvare solutions include:
- CORES HAN, a high-volume mass alert platform
- CORES RMS, which helps coordinate volunteer personnel
- eICS Electronic Incident Command System
- EMTrack, a patient and population tracking solution
- EMResource, a management platform for healthcare and emergency resources
- Fleeteyes, used for tracking and accessing emergency management fleet vehicles
Clients
Past and present clients of CFI included local, state, and federal government agencies in the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services awarded CFI contracts for disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.{{citation|title=Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of Health Resources and Services Administration's Award Process for a Contract With Collaborative Fusion, Inc.|publisher=Office of Inspector General|publication-place=United States|url=https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/2007/emergency-response-to-hurricanes-katrina-and-rita-audit-of-health-resources-and-services-administrations-award-process-for-a-contract-with-collaborative-fusion-inc/|date=2007-06-08|access-date=2008-05-09}} They also have developed and support technology programs for state governments, including the State of California's Medical Volunteer System.{{citation|last=Linthucum|first=Randy|url=http://www.emsa.ca.gov/def_comm/2007092608A.asp|date=2007-09-26|accessdate=2008-05-09|publisher=Emergency Medical Services Authority|publication-place=California, United States|title=California Medical Volunteers (previously known as ESAR-VHP)}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{citation|last=Linthucum|first=Randy|url=http://www.emsa.ca.gov/def_comm/2008032611A.asp|date=2008-03-26|accessdate=2008-05-09|publisher=Emergency Medical Services Authority|publication-place=California, United States|title=California Medical Volunteers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430201627/http://www.emsa.ca.gov/def_comm/2008032611A.asp|archive-date=2008-04-30|url-status=dead}} CFI also administers a number of federally mandated ESAR-VHP programs for state governments.
Accolades
CFI was selected as one of the "50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania" in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 by the Pittsburgh Business Times, as well as #31 of the "Top 50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania with Under 50 Employees" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.{{citation|title=50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania |periodical=Pittsburgh Business Times |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/top25lists/ |date=2007 |accessdate=2008-05-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510160239/http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/top25lists/ |archivedate=May 10, 2008 }}{{citation|title=50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania|periodical=Pittsburgh Business Times|url=http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/event/3934|date=2008|accessdate=2008-08-12}}{{citation|title=50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania|periodical=Pittsburgh Business Times|url=http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/event/5159|date=2009|accessdate=2009-08-20}}{{citation|title=2007 Top 50 Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania with Under 50 Employees|periodical=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07079/770715-334.stm|date=2007-03-20|accessdate=2008-05-18 | first=Steve | last=Massey}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080508171839/http://www.collaborativefusion.com/ Collaborative Fusion homepage (archived)]
- [https://www.juvare.com/ Juvare homepage]
Category:Companies established in 2001
Category:Companies based in Pittsburgh