iTV Will Launch In September, and It Will Help Healthcare … through iTV EMR

Recently, Digg founder, Kevin Rose stated that iTV (the soon to be released upgrade to Apple TV) “will change everything”, and that we should expect the device’s release in September.

The rumor: Apple will be releasing a revamped/renamed version of their ‘Apple TV’ set-top box, called ‘iTV’. The box will run the Apple iOS (same as the iPhone/iPad), and be priced around $99.

I’m sure you are asking yourself, how in the world will iTV help healthcare? Well, it is simply one reason, iOS-based TV applications, simply put you can run your iTune apps though iTV. Imagine being able to view extremely high resolution images from iOS apps on the big screen? If a mobile iPad isn’t good enough for you and you need a bigger screen how does 52″ HD TV sound?

High resolution radiology images will look crystal clear, not to mention EKGs, sonograms, X-Rays … you get the idea.

Think about how the exam room can have an iTV hooked up so that the physician can show a patient all types of information, lab results, X-Rays, patient education videos all in real time.

Since iTV coming, the Dr. Chrono team is hard at work thinking of our we can use this new technology to enhance healthcare.

iPad EMR ePrescribing now available.

Doctors can prescribe drugs on an iPad! Patients can pick them up from any pharmacy. No paper involved.

Right now doctors are writing prescriptions on paper. This isn’t ideal. Paper gets lost, pharmacies might miss read hand writing and there are times when doctors aren’t aware of all of the drugs a patient is on, drug interactions are always a concern.

Imagine a future where there are no paper prescriptions, when there is no confusion on a doctors hand writing from a script and drug interaction issues are almost down to 0%. We are nearing that future with electronic prescription. On an iPad, a doctor has literally a pad that he can write a prescription within seconds and the patient can pick up the drugs from the pharmacy of choice. It is just that easy.

We are the first company to get eRx or electronic prescriptions on the iPad. Electronic prescription are a game changer in healthcare.

Below is a demo of eRx in action:

(As of Dec 2009, ~53k pharmacies which ~85% of all pharmacies in the US. are setup to get eprescriptions (eRx). SureScripts puts out an annual overview report of this.
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Meaningful Use Waves Overview from NIST

The NIST or National Institute of Standards and Technology has waves that need to be followed for meaningful use, these waves can be found here:

Below is a layout of these waves as well of what is required from NIST to meet meaningful use.

Our focus is to reach all meaningful use criteria on our mobile applications and SaaS cloud EMR platform.

If you have questions on how we are meeting meaningful use, please email us at support@drchrono.com

Appointment Reminder System – EMR / EHR – Electronic Medical Records

I am not just saying because I work at drchrono.com, but I truly believe it, the companies roots are built on top of reaching out to patients and letting them know about their appointments. We have done this better then any EMR I have seen, period.

The power of our platform is that you can use an iPad, have an EMR, do your billing … AND have a sophisticated way to connect, remind and recall patients to your practice. I have not see an EMR on the market with such integration to reminding patients.

We created a few videos to show off these features.

Here is a real live demo of an automated phone call reminder:

CEO talks about iPad EMR EHR

Here is a part of a talk by Michael Nusimow, CEO of DrChrono.com talking about iPad EMR / iPad EHR and the future of healthcare.