Dr. I-Net is a new and
exciting concept designed to facilitate on-time healthcare delivery
using the information superhighway. It is an innovative approach in
the delivery of service and rapid flow of information. Dr.I-Net stores
your biographical information, medical history, charts, scans and
laboratory test results. All of this is accomplished in real-time
using data entry and state-of-the-art imaging technology.
Dr. I-Net recognizes that
the healthcare industry, because of its size and extreme dependence
on information exchange, is particularly well suited to benefit from
the use of the internet. Most processes in healthcare remain duplicative
and paper-based, resulting in wasted efforts, high labor costs and
at times lead to delays in delivery of care.
"Medicine is riddled
with inefficiencies, outrageous costs, and outmoded technology...Already,
health care accounts for 14% of the nation's gross domestic, product,
and that's expected to climb to nearly 20% by 2005." -Businessweek
December 2000
Physicians
are finding themselves challenged by a rapidly evolving healthcare
market. What is needed is a low cost means of automating complex clinical
records so that physicians' valuable time is spent caring for patients.
This solution must be accessible, open, reliable and secure. It must
provide physicians with information they need and support the work
their office staff performs in order to deliver effective patient
care. The solution must be compatible with existing systems and need
not require a major investment in computer hardware, software or system
maintenance. In the future Dr. I-Net intends to include the use of
voice-recognition systems as part of a transcription service. Dr.
I-Net's services will provide physicians with the following advantages:
- Convenience
in operating rooms.
- Legible,
clear and precise documentation.
- Usage
of talking computers.
- Referral
Convenience.
- Easy
access to records by several attending physicians.
- Centralization
of medical records.
- Reduction
of physician's, nurse's, and other supporting personnel's workload
through an automated and structured approach.
- Physicians can also provide health
information to their patients by asking them to log into Dr. I-Net
and click on the link that pertains to their ailment.
"The average physician
with an annual billing of $650,000 is currently losing between $35,000
and $100,000 a year to claim denials. These lost claims occur because
the doctors do not have adequate documentation for their patient encounters
or have billed incorrectly for their services." -Businessweek
December 2000
Dr. I-Net addresses this
problem by automating claims with Bill
Master in conjunction with the central database where the patients
history is maintained.
Individuals
Over
the last decade, patients have taken a more active role in their healthcare.
Frequently, they have to reproduce their entire medical history when
changing doctors or when faced with a medical emergency. Dr. I-Net
will:
- Empower them within the healthcare
system.
- Expedite their medical encounter.
- Improve their overall status
of well being.
- Provide a one-stop solution
for all of their healthcare needs.
- International Gateway to complimentary
medicine.
"A recent survey
by Cyber Dialogue, a market-research firm that tracks Internet health
care trends, found that health care information is one of the three
most popular topics on the Net. In 1999, 24.8 million adults, or 43%
of all adult Internet users, searched the Web for health info - a
45% increase from 1998. By 2002, growth of this group will outpace
that of general Internet users by 60%." -Businessweek
December 2000
Individuals
will like this free service as it minimizes aggravation during emergency
situations. This service also offers access to alternate medicine,
health information and it acts as a basis for second opinions worldwide.
Soon it will provide solutions to stem escalating medical costs.
Healthcare
purchasers have placed an enormous amount of pressure on managed care
and insurance companies to lower their costs. In addition, these companies
are facing intense competition and must increasingly differentiate
themselves around value. Health plans and insurer's core administrative
and information services are often poorly supported by inflexible
legacy systems that are costly to integrate and are difficult to obtain
information from. Health plans and insurers need a better way to meet
their customers' and partners' information needs and to automate and
simplify time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks. These companies
will the have following incentives to use Dr. I-Net:
- Avoiding inaccurate and unnecessary
claims.
- Lowering of administrative costs.
- Keeping track of patient diagnoses.
- Initial insurance enrollment
verification for both life and health insurance.
- Avoiding duplicate diagnostic
tests.
"Healthcare
analysts at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffay estimate that medical errors
cost more than $3 billion annually."
-Businessweek December 2000
"In
a study of 379 consecutive admissions at an urban hospital, 10,070
medical orders were written by hand, resulting in 530 mistakes."
-Businessweek December 2000
Pharmacies and Pharmaceutical
Companies
Pharmacies can communicate
with the patients and their physicians for personalized medication.
Also, in the future ventures like The Human Genome Project will allow
personalized medicine for patients by keeping the history and medical
records at one location to be viewed by various attending physicians.
"In a recent case,
a hospital in Istanbul submitted X-rays of a young man who had broken
his leg. While the Turkish hospital had been planning to put the leg
in a cast, a radiologist at Mass. General spotted a rare form of bone
cancer, and brought the man to Boston for surgery." -Businessweek
December 2000
Dr.
I-Net recognizes that its success depends on delivering service that
enhances the performance of our clients' organization and adds value
to their service. We believe quality, cost control and convenience
are the most precious assets that we can deliver.
Dr.
I-Net places high premium on clearly defined goals and objectives
and expects the fullest cooperation and coordination among every aspect
of this business. We recognize that to achieve quality we must, from
the very beginning, design quality into every individual segment of
our business and every aspect of our performance.
