We've seen consumer gadgets being used by medical practitionersalready, but an iPad app called Drchrono is taking medicine to a new level of paper-free convenience.
Drchrono is an EHR (electronic health record) app for the iPad. It allows doctors to complete everyday tasks and access information without having to turn to paper records. The information gathered and accessed through the app is also available from any web browser, iPhone or Android device, since the app syncs with the Drchrono web-based healthcare platform.
The app's features are intended to improve the ways in which doctors interact with patients. For example, physicians can use the app for scheduling appointments, writing e-prescriptions (which can be sent to any U.S. pharmacy), paperless billing, note taking, medical speech-to-text transcription, and drug interaction tests. X-rays, EKGs and lab results can be uploaded to the app, where they can be tagged and viewed later.
And as the makers of Drchrono point out, the app can go with the physician into the exam room; a web app or non-web-based computer software, on the other hand, require the practitioner to be in front of a computer.
Records are updated in real time, and the app's makers are constantly adding new features. All the data storage is HIPAA-compliant, as well.
Here are a few demo videos to give you an idea of the app's UI and features:
It's free for doctors to use the app on one iPad. Adding more devices requires subscriptions that range between $99 and $199 per month. Meanwhile, using Drchrono qualifies medical practitioners for a $44,000 in economic stimulus incentives through the HITECH Act, which has earmarked $19.2 billion to get doctors to transition from paper records to digital ones.
The app comes with free online training and daily demos for physicians who have questions about the app or want to learn more about its features.
Drchrono is a Y Combinator startup co-founded by Michael Nusimow and Daniel Kivatinos. "Our vision is to have an iPad in every doctor's office with our app on it," Kivatinos said in an email. "We are trying to build out the most friendly electronic medical record platform ever used by doctors."
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