For immediate release: Monday, April 9, 2007
Contact: Fred Winters, George Arzt Communications
212-608-0333/fred@arztcomm.com
REVOLUTIONARY HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM LEAPFROGS EMR AND IMPROVES HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
Doctations, Inc. announced today the release of DocPatient.com, a website that will revolutionize and improve the way healthcare documentation is prepared and managed for years to come, leapfrogging current EMR systems. DocPatient.com is an internet-based medical documentation system bringing doctors, patients, office staff and service providers together asynchronously to accomplish tasks more efficiently and securely than ever before possible to improve healthcare delivery.
DocPatient.com, at www.DocPatient.com, differentiates itself in the market by offering:
-An intuitive online interface with realistic means for doctors to record their thoughts
-Immediate cost savings starting with no upfront software purchasing and maintenance costs required by EMR systems
-Increased convenience and freedom for the doctor
-Minimal start-up time, effort and cost
-Fits easily into current practice systems and routines
-Immediate financial benefit to doctor
-Increased accuracy of data at time of encounter and on permanent record
-Dramatic time savings relative to dictation/transcription and EMR data entry
Dr. Nicholas Tarricone, Director of the Doctations Physician Advisory Board said, The EMR experiment has failed. Forty years after the first EMR software was developed, 85% of doctors have voted it down. They simply don't use it, despite hype, presidential pressure and mandates for its use. By now, It's clear that EMR products are so fundamentally flawed as to make them unusable for doctors and useless for patients.
Dr. Louis Cornacchia, practicing neurosurgeon and CEO of three-year old Doctations, said, ?Realizing that functional EMRs are critically important today, but that only a small percentage of providers has embraced currently available systems, we focused on inventing a system which provides a practical, time-efficient and economical means for doctors to record their thoughts in digital medical records. DocPatient.com accomplishes this.
DocPatient.com, created by a team of practicing physicians with input from their patients, uses innovative technology to provide the following in an ultra-secure, fully HIPAA-compliant environment:
-Integrated dictation and transcription
-The Shared Patient Database
-Facilitated collaboration between doctors and between doctors and patients
-Audited re-use of data
-Multi-media data recording
DocPatient.com offers doctors something they have never had easy and intuitive digital record creation. The most successful back-office technology, medical billing, succeeds where EMR doesn't because it functions without turning the doctor into a secretary. Doctations applies the same principle to documentation by using online transcriptionists.
Doctations already partners with transcription companies and is actively seeking additional transcription partners seeking to improve service and their bottom line.
On the DocPatientNetwork, doctors don't have to type, point and click or scroll through lists of preprogrammed phrases. They can document as they do now, writing or dictating notes, even adding their own phrases, and have both transcribed using Doctation?s in-line dictation at a rate 30-50% below current cost and no more expensive than pen and paper. The overall document cost is reduced by up to 80%, as is the doctors time spent on it.
Clinically, the Shared Patient Database enhances a doctors effectiveness by providing a heretofore unavailable complete history of his or her care for a patient, access to other providers records for that patient and to the patient's own information, including prescriptions, allergies, current symptoms and compliance with the treatment plan.
Equally critical, it provides the doctor with complete documentation that generates insurance reimbursement commensurate with care.
Speaking for patients, Dr. Charles Colangelo, Doctations Patient Advisory Group Director, stated, "Who knows what papers and images your doctor needs at your visit? Using DocPatient.com, I now have a PHR, a Patient Health Record, containing all my test results and other medical information which I can fax in or import from my computer, organized so all of all my doctors can have access, if I authorize it. I don't have to fill out paperwork at every visit and I have the confidence of knowing that my doctor won't prescribe conflicting medications and they all know what the others are doing. Those not on DocPatient.com can register free so I can authorize them to access my PHR. It's like a big online basket for all my medical stuff.
Equally comforting, emergency room can get immediate access to my records.
Essential DocPatient.com services for patients and emergency room access are provided free. For $49.99 annually, they get the PHR, including the ability to save all of the medical documents sent from a doctor's office, to fax in or upload documents to the PHR.
doctors subscriptions are exceptionally cost effective. In fact, the basic tier is free and provides doctors with access to their patients? online medical data and the ability to produce up to a dozen digital medical records on a trial basis.
DocPatient.com, in addition to being a fully-featured medical documentation system, is also a multi-media, HIPAA-compliant answering machine which allows doctors to communicate securely with each other and their patients, encouraging the kind of doctor-doctor and doctor-patient communications rarely found today. This may well be the first commercially available, secure healthcare communications system of this kind in the world.
Dr. Thomas Crimi, of the Doctations Physician Advisory Board, noted Doctations.motto is the best healthcare is based on a strong doctor-patient relationship. The physicians behind DocPatient.com believe that patients should turn to doctors and nurses for information about their medical problems, instead of confusing internet searches.