Networking Site for Physicians Offers Secure Message Capability to Facilitate Instant Collaborative Patient Care
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Science, Inc. (HSI), a Rockville Innovation Center Incubator company, today announced the launch of an innovative software service that enables physicians to collaborate and coordinate patient care in a secure environment. PatientCarenet.Org connects community-based physicians with specialty physicians, hospitals and laboratories to allow simple, direct communication about shared patients throughout the referral, diagnosis, treatment and discharge processes.
Founded by Y.K. Son, PatientCarenet.Org, a division of Human Science, Inc., is the direct result of personal medical care experience. "Two years ago my wife had a severe accident and I spent months going from my family physician to specialists. It became clear to me that primary care physicians and specialists spent countless hours playing phone tag, leading to wasted time on hold, call backs, and multiple attempts to connect to share patient information. As a result, we developed a direct, secure, digital communication solution that is integrated to physician's own work flow in order to increase physician efficiency and response rate by reducing lag time for information exchange in patient care coordination," Mr. Son explained. "A doctor's time is the most important resource in health service. PatientCarenet.Org provides physicians and specialists within their own referral network a means to reduce time wasted and communication errors, and ultimately improve patient care."
Recent studies indicate that nearly 80 percent of physicians provide care in practices with fewer than five physicians, creating a silo effect: small systems that cannot exchange information with each other and incapable of reciprocal transactions. Yet inter-physician communication is critical to providing quality care especia
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