With new mobile app, doctors exchange secure patient information 'on the go'
by Glenda Fauntleroy, DOTmed News | April 26, 2012
DocBookMD
Are you a busy doctor wishing to share patient test results for consultation with other doctors while you're away from the hospital? Well, now there's an app for that.
DocBookMD allows users to send and receive patient information, such as test results, through messaging from their mobile device to other colleagues subscribed to the service.
The app complies with HIPAA privacy regulations as all activity is run through a secure server, with multiple encryption levels, according DocBookMD. Data is stored on the server, rather than the physician's mobile device.
DocBookMD was created by the husband and wife team of doctors, Tim Gueramy, M.D., and Tracey Haas, M.D., from Austin, Tex. Gueramy, an orthopedic surgeon, realized how such an app could prove handy for busy doctors when he was once called away for an "emergency" during the couple's anniversary dinner. It turned out that if he could have viewed the patient's x-ray from the restaurant, he wouldn't have had to miss dinner.
"When you're a doctor, you expect that your plans will be cut short, but the vast majority of times, the interruption isn't an emergency," Gueramy said in a statement.
With the app, doctors can exchange information such as x-rays, lab results or EKG's and get a response back from another physician in minutes, Gueramy said.
"The app allows us to more effectively communicate, which means we can more effectively treat our patients."
The app is available free for physicians who are members of their county or state medical societies. Once downloaded to an iPhone or iPad from the app store, users are prompted to register with the email address on file with their medical societies. DocBookMD also runs on Android mobile devices.
Physicians belonging to almost 100 medical societies in 23 U.S. states are using DocBookMD, and according to Haas there are currently 7,400 active users. A search on iTunes app store showed most reviews of DocBookMD were favorable.
"Physicians are very excited to have access to HIPAA compliant messaging and their colleagues right at their finger tips," Haas told DOTmed News.
DocBookMD allows users to send and receive patient information, such as test results, through messaging from their mobile device to other colleagues subscribed to the service.
The app complies with HIPAA privacy regulations as all activity is run through a secure server, with multiple encryption levels, according DocBookMD. Data is stored on the server, rather than the physician's mobile device.
DocBookMD was created by the husband and wife team of doctors, Tim Gueramy, M.D., and Tracey Haas, M.D., from Austin, Tex. Gueramy, an orthopedic surgeon, realized how such an app could prove handy for busy doctors when he was once called away for an "emergency" during the couple's anniversary dinner. It turned out that if he could have viewed the patient's x-ray from the restaurant, he wouldn't have had to miss dinner.
"When you're a doctor, you expect that your plans will be cut short, but the vast majority of times, the interruption isn't an emergency," Gueramy said in a statement.
With the app, doctors can exchange information such as x-rays, lab results or EKG's and get a response back from another physician in minutes, Gueramy said.
"The app allows us to more effectively communicate, which means we can more effectively treat our patients."
The app is available free for physicians who are members of their county or state medical societies. Once downloaded to an iPhone or iPad from the app store, users are prompted to register with the email address on file with their medical societies. DocBookMD also runs on Android mobile devices.
Physicians belonging to almost 100 medical societies in 23 U.S. states are using DocBookMD, and according to Haas there are currently 7,400 active users. A search on iTunes app store showed most reviews of DocBookMD were favorable.
"Physicians are very excited to have access to HIPAA compliant messaging and their colleagues right at their finger tips," Haas told DOTmed News.
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