At Healthix, an 18-employee Manhattan-based RHIO that serves 50 hospitals in the borough and on Long Island, company President Tom Check said he expects to hire about 11 people.
Check said other new hires would work on increasing the data collected in the system.
Manufacturers of personal fitness devices and software also hope SHIN-NY will help their businesses. At Fitango, a four-year-old Manhattan company founded in 2010, founder Dov Biran said SHIN-NY could bring his "patient-engagement platform" new customers. The software lets users, their doctors, and their insurers track their health habits.
Meanwhile, other small businesses have their eyes on the network's potential data mine. "We want to tap into the SHIN-NY data," said Frank Sculli, a biomedical engineer and co-founder of BioDigital, a SoHo-based software company that specializes in creating computerized 3-D pictures of medical conditions.
With more data, Sculli said, he plans to do patient-specific imaging. SHIN-NY "will absolutely advance technology," he said.
"New health data network lures entrepreneurs" originally appeared in Crain's New York Business.