WHAT IS MEDKAZ®?
MedKaz is a digital system that enables care providers to streamline their workflow, practice better medicine, increase their income and annually save tens of thousands of patients from unnecessary pain — even death — and billions of dollars. It does so by reimagining how to manage and share personal health records.
Instead of following the conventional approach of trying to link provider silos on the fly via electronic networks, MedKaz aggregates a patient’s complete record from all his providers, and the application to manage them, on a MedKaz mini drive which the patient owns, carries on a keyring with his house and car keys or wears as a dogtag, and gives to his providers when he needs care. It is automatically updated for him following each encounter.
The key MedKaz benefit for care providers is that it gives them immediate access to copies of all their patients’ records from all their providers in one place, anytime, anywhere the physician needs them — something provider EMR systems cannot do today or for the foreseeable future notwithstanding their claims! (They’ve been promising interoperability for more than 12 years, but in a recent study, 93% of respondents say “Gaps in Interoperability hinder the capacity to make timely care decisions.”)
With MedKaz, they can enjoy total interoperability today! They no longer must rely on a patient’s incomplete record or waste time trying to get their patient’s other providers to fax their records to them. This immediate access to a patient’s complete medical record dramatically reduces the physician’s risk of committing a costly medical error, and generally precludes the need to reschedule visits, order unnecessary tests, or reorder recent tests and procedures because their results aren’t available at the point of care.
A second important benefit is that care providers are paid each time they use their patient’s MedKaz and upload copies of their notes to our MedKaz Server. Thus, when you use your patients’ MedKaz drives while treating them you can materially increase your income! (see sixth point below)
Third, MedKaz is an important communication platform. It enables patients to review their records and correct mistakes if there are any, better manage their care, and automatically share their records with anyone they choose, including loved ones (think elderly parent with adult children), care givers, and researchers. In turn, loved ones and care givers can help patients manage their own care, so their providers needn’t pay a nurse or social worker to do so.
Adding to its appeal, MedKaz is available today, secure, simple to use, inexpensive — less than $100 annually, requires no special training or costly networks, blends seamlessly into a provider’s workflow, works even during power and internet outages and generates new profits for provider practices, clinics and hospitals.
HOW DO YOU USE IT?
First, your patient subscribes to MedKaz, and gives you his MedKaz anytime you treat him — in the exam room, ER, ambulance or elsewhere. As shown in the attached graphic, you plug it into a free-standing computer NOT into your EMR-connected laptop or terminal. This protects both your system and your patient’s MedKaz from possible corruption. A stand-alone computer costs less than $1,000. The new income MedKaz generates will cover this nominal cost many, many times over; the ROI is extraordinary! (see sixth point below)
Second, when you log onto his MedKaz it generates a remarkable report: an up-to-the-minute Health Summary which you can read in 30 seconds and be up to date with all his issues and care — even if he forgets to tell you something! No other system provides anything comparable!
- It opens in a simple browser, requires no special training, and saves you 3 to 6 minutes with each patient.
- It lists all his current and past serious health issues, both acute and chronic, some which you treat, some which were or are being treated by others.
- It also lists his meds, allergies, immunizations, and recent visits to other providers since he last saw you, including the reason/complaint for each visit. (If he’s a new patient, it lists all his visits to care providers for the prior six months.)
Third, you proceed as you normally do: You talk with and examine him.
Fourth, when you want to know more about a particular issue or care provided by others, you search his MedKaz.
- Each document containing the search term displays in a browser just as happens with a Google search, with the most recent document open and the search term highlighted.
- You simply click from key word to key word and document to document to quickly find the specific information you are looking for. With your patient’s permission — he enters his password, you can print the note or download it directly to your system.
Fifth, you enter your notes into your charting system (NOT his MedKaz).
Sixth, your Medical Record Department uploads a copy to our MedKaz Server via secure DirectMessaging. The copy may consist solely of a pdf document or include structured data. (You are paid to upload your patients’ records and for using their MedKaz. You can estimate how much new revenue MedKaz will generate and your ROI by modeling your practice on our Value Calculator. Down the road, we expect your patients’ employers and insurers will give MedKaz to them as a benefit.)
- Our Server makes the pdf document searchable and emails your patient to download it to his MedKaz. (If we received both a pdf and structured data from you, when your patient downloads his record it will include both.)
- It also emails others your patient has designated to receive copies of his records, such as loved ones, care givers, or researchers, to download the record. If they have a MedKaz, they can download your patient’s record directly to it — both the pdf and structured data if you submitted both. They can print it or save it as a pdf document on their computer. (MedKaz is designed to hold multiple parties’ records. Parents can include their children’s records, a husband his wife’s records and vice versa, care givers their patient’s records, patients even their pet’s records, etc.)
- If your patient has instructed MedKaz to send a copy of your record to his other care providers, our Server immediately “pushes” a copy — including both pdf and structured data if you provided both — to each designated provider so they can promptly notify you if your treatment will conflict with their care program and harm your patient. Similarly, our Server “pushes” copies of his records from his other doctors to you so you can catch possible conflicts with your care program.
Lastly, your staff can use your patient’s MedKaz to update your records about him, such as his contact information, insurance coverage, personal contacts, and advance directives.
