FAQs

Because MedKaz 3.0 does what your system can’t do. It:

• Gives you access to your patients’ complete medical record from all their providers, in the ER, exam room, during a telehealth visit — even when your system is down due to a power outage or ransomware.
• Contains patients’ early records that may no longer be available from their other providers, and information they may no longer remember about their early illnesses and treatments.
• Enables your patient, using our Share-With-Providers feature, to automatically send copies of your notes to other providers who treat them for the same illness and, similarly, send you records of their encounters with other providers.
• Enables you to deliver better, lower-cost care by avoiding medical errors, unnecessary visits, tests and procedures.
• Saves you time with each patient which you can use to talk with them.
• Is a new source of revenue and profits. Group practices and hospitals, depending upon their size, can receive several hundred thousand to millions of dollars in additional revenue and profit.
• Most importantly, by making total interoperability possible today, important changes in the way care is delivered, organized and paid for can be adopted.

MedKaz 3.0 is charting-system agnostic. It enables you to coordinate your patients’ care even if you keep paper charts. But if you use it together with our special Patient Record Manager application, you can have your cake and eat it, too.

You’ll also be able to enjoy the practice-management benefits of electronic records. For example, when you are notified of a drug recall or a disease alert, you’ll be able to instantly generate a list of your patients affected, along with their contact information, so you can immediately contact them.

On the contrary, it works today with all electronic and paper systems, and it will work tomorrow with whatever systems you or others adopt. It’s the most versatile and probably the easiest system to use that you’ve ever seen.

And because it works with any and all systems, it makes it easy for practices and hospitals using different EMR systems to merge or work together in an ACO. They each can enjoy total interoperability with MedKaz 3.0 even though their own systems can’t share their patients’ records.

That’s fine. In fact, we recommend you not plug your patient’s Medkaz 3.0 into your system. Instead, plug it into a standalone computer, and use it alongside your charting system. This way, your system can’t be exposed to malicious software; neither can your patient’s MedKaz. 3.0.

As discussed below, the one time cost of a standalone computer is less than $300. This investment is dwarfed by your new revenue stream which can easily exceed $4,000 annually per provider!

Because, according to Pew Research, more than 32 million adult Americans — most of whom are heavy users of healthcare — do not own smartphones! They include almost 22 million senior citizens (39% of Medicare’s 56 million insureds) and more than 10 million, or 29%, of those with annual incomes under $50K. In contrast, anyone can afford and use MedKaz 3.0. (When more own smartphones, we’ll consider offering MedKaz 3.0 as an app.)

When you log on, a current Health Summary (and possibly a Referral Request and Complaint Report) opens in a browser. You visually scan them quickly to understand your patient’s issues — saving you three to six minutes which you can use to talk with your patient.

• As you examine your patient and want to know about his or her care from other providers, you can instantly search their MedKaz 3.0 — without having to flip through multiple screens — and read their other doctors’ notes (you can even download copies to your system as searchable documents or structured-data).
• When you have finished, you enter your progress notes in your charting system as usual. Your computer or assistant uploads a copy to our Server.

Nothing! Instead, it actually generates substantial new income for you — as much as $4,000 or more annually per care provider!

Instead of you paying us, we pay you when you upload a copy of your patient’s encounter record to our MedKaz® Server. If your EMR system is programmed appropriately, it uploads records automatically. Otherwise, an assistant can upload them.

Your only cost is the one time cost to equip your exam rooms with free-standing computers (less than $300 per computer). This cost is dwarfed by your annual new revenue stream which can easily exceed $4,000 annually per care provider. Your ROI will be extraordinary!

In the future, we expect employers, insurers and government to offer MedKaz® as a wellness benefit, and pay our subscription fee and other incentives, such as a premium over your normal office visit reimbursement rate when you use your patient’s MedKaz® during a visit. It’s in their self-interest to do so because MedKaz® enables you to reduce the cost of care, and they are the ones who enjoy the bulk of the savings.

No. But if your tech people make the following simple changes, uploading your patients’ records will be fully automatic. (Pardon the tech speak!)

• Add three data fields to your EMR patient record: a checkbox to indicate the patient has a MedKaz 3.0, a field to include a MedKaz ID number, and a field for your patient’s photograph.
• Write a simple procedure instructing your system’s server to automatically upload a patient record and CCD document generated by your server, to our MedKaz Server following each visit.

No special training is required! If you can perform a search and read a document in a browser, you’ll manage it easily and so will your patients.

Email ProviderSupport@medkaz.com or call Provider Support at 877 580-4500.

Yes. But you pay the providers. So you have both a strong interest in reducing costs, and the financial clout to nudge care providers to do so. When the savings begin to flow, both you and your shareholders will benefit handsomely!

The place to start is to ensure providers can access their patient’s complete medical record at the point of care — even during a power outage or ransomware shutdown. You can accomplish this by offering financial incentives to care providers and patients to embrace MedKaz.

For care providers, you can increase their payment when they treat a MedKaz owner. For employees/insureds, you can pay them a wellness benefit to carry MedKaz, or reduce their share of their health insurance premium.

With MedKaz 3.0, your employees’ doctors can materially reduce the cost of your health insurance by coordinating their care and avoiding costly mistakes and unnecessary visits, tests, procedures. You enjoy the bulk of these savings; your employees/insureds save deductibles and copays.

It also offers very important intangible benefits for your employees and your company.

By offering it as a wellness benefit, it helps you retain your current workforce and attract new employees. It “tells” them  that you care about them, their health and their beneficiaries’ health.

Second, it enables your employees to be better manage their own care, share their records with their providers and loved ones, enjoy better outcomes and save money

Purchased by an employer, insurer or government agency, the cost can be as low as $4.00 per participant per month.

An individual can subscribe to MedKaz® 3.0 for only $4.50 per month or $49.50 per year. Family Packs are even less per individual.

This cost is easily recovered when one mistake, visit or unnecessary test is avoided. When extensive blood tests, MRIs, CT Scans, a day in an ICU, or a night in the hospital are avoided, you’ll save thousands of dollars!

When a patient requires care, he gives his MedKaz 3.0 to his doctor who logs on and reads a current Health Summary and other documents that quickly update her on her patient’s issues.

• As she examines her patient and needs to understand his current and prior care from other doctors, she electronically searches for and reads specific records on his MedKaz 3.0.
• Also, if the patient changes any personal information, such his address or employer, we automatically send a copy of the changes to each provider so they can update their records.

Because, according to Pew Research, more than 32 million adult Americans — most of whom are heavy users of healthcare — do not own smartphones! They include almost 22 million senior citizens (39% of Medicare’s 56 million insureds) and more than 10 million, or 29%, of those with annual incomes under $50K. In contrast, anyone can afford and use MedKaz 3.0. (When more own smartphones, we’ll consider offering MedKaz 3.0 as an app.)

It’s encrypted so the records are secure. The employee/insured simply recovers their backed-up records to a new MedKaz 3.0.

For three simple reasons.

• It enables them to deliver, better, coordinated, lower-cost care to their patients — even during telehealth visits, power outages and ransomware-triggered shutdowns.
• It can materially increase their income. Depending upon the size of their practice or organization, physicians, hospitals and ACOs can earn tens of $thousands or $millions more annually.
• It makes possible fundamental changes in the way healthcare is delivered, the delivery system is organized, and providers are paid — including the emergence of retail urgent care centers, ACOs, and value-based care.

Email demo@medkaz.com, or call Customer Service at 877 580-4500.