{"id":9730,"date":"2010-10-12T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:56:10","slug":"alumnuss-company-named-co-winner-in-national-ibm-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2010\/10\/alumnuss-company-named-co-winner-in-national-ibm-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus\u2019s company named co-winner in national IBM competition."},"content":{"rendered":"

CareCloud, a web-based software and services company that modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care through a cloud computing technology-based solution, was one of two companies to receive the \u201cIBM SmartCamp Silicon Valley\u201d award. Albert Santalo<\/strong> (EMBA \u201997), who serves as the company\u2019s chairman, president and CEO, accepted the award in Palo Alto, California in September 2010.<\/p>\n

\"Alberto
Alberto Santalo received a trophy as CareCloud was named co-winner of the IBM SmartCamp Silicon Valley competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe feel our solution helps revolutionize the way physicians collaborate and share critical healthcare information,\u201d Santalo said. \u201cAs a Miami-based technology company to be recognized by IBM, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, and to receive all the insights of the brilliant people attending the announcement, made this an incredible event.\u201d<\/p>\n

CareCloud and co-winner Streetline competed with hundreds of start-up companies that are creating new technologies in critical areas such as healthcare, water management and food solutions. IBM SmartCamp, launched earlier this year, judges the best start-up company in different cities worldwide, rewarding the winners with mentoring, services, access to industry experts, and deeper partnership opportunities from IBM, venture capital firms and industry partners. CareCloud and Streetline also have been invited to the upcoming World Finals in Dublin in November 2010 to square off against other SmartCamp winners from around the globe to claim the title of \u201cWorld’s Smartest Start-Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Alberto
Alberto Santalo, along with the other five Silicon Valley finalists, gave a final presentation to a panel of judges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to the event\u2019s top prize, CareCloud also competed for three prizes from IBM\u2019s SmartCamp cosponsors, picking up two of them: the Ballou PR award, offered by international public relations firm Ballou, and the SDForum high technology award.<\/p>\n

Santalo has strong ties to College of Business Administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

Santalo is a member of the Dean\u2019s Council in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU), the 2006 inductee in the college\u2019s Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame as founder of Avisena, a graduate of the college\u2019s first Executive MBA class and a speaker at events such as a \u201cDistinguished CIO Lunch and Learn, titled \u201cHealth Care Information Systems: Challenges and Cures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPursuing Internet-based software and services as a means to fix the problems of U.S. healthcare is my life\u2019s work,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel lucky to have the opportunity to be doing this with the exceptional individuals we have on our team at CareCloud. This is also a time in which an unprecedented level of attention is being paid to the matter of healthcare reform and technology\u2019s role as an integral part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CareCloud, a web-based software and services company that modernizes the workflow in a medical practice to put physicians in touch with each other across multiple points of care through a cloud computing technology-based solution, was one of two companies to receive the \u201cIBM SmartCamp Silicon Valley\u201d award. Albert Santalo (EMBA \u201997), who serves as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29813,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/29813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}