Collaborative Fusion
Collaborative Fusion, Inc. 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. 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.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. 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.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. 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, 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