Strategically, MedKaz® is unique. It differs from all other approaches to medical-record sharing and coordination. Its business model is equally unique.
- MedKaz gives the patient control of all her records from all her providers, and the system to manage them, in one place — on a MedKaz mini drive she carries with her house and car keys on a keyring, or wears as a pendant. It smooths the transition among her care providers.
- It is an information source about the patient’s current and past health issues, and a powerful communication platform. The patient has three options to share her records:
- with her provider in the exam room where care is delivered/prescribed, and costs are incurred.
- with all providers treating her following a visit with one provider, so they can quickly catch medical errors before serious harm can occur.
- with anyone else she chooses including loved ones and care givers, to help her better manage her care and follow her doctors’ instructions.
- It is available today. Everyone concerned with care — patients, providers, payers (employers, insurers, government) — can enjoy the benefits of coordinated care today:
- improved care quality
- fewer claims
- materially lower costs
- changes in the way care is organized, delivered and paid for.
- MedKaz is paid for by the patient or her payer; its adoption and use are driven by financial incentives; all participants benefit financially.
- It is patented: patent issued.
Functionally, MedKaz Is Convenient. Secure. Powerful. Empowering. Financially Sound.
- Convenient A patient’s MedKaz contains her complete medical record from all her providers and the application to manage them.
- It contains complete notes, not summaries.
- It is instantly available anytime the patient or her doctors need her records.
- It is updated for her immediately following an encounter.
- It is easy to use, no special training is required. Anyone who can log onto a computer and perform a search, can use a MedKaz.
- It is affordable and usable by all, including the 32 million seniors and low-income earners who are among our heaviest healthcare users but don’t have smartphones.
- Secure MedKaz is the most secure system available.
- It is HIPAA compliant.
- Records to/from providers via the MedKaz server are sent via DirectMessaging.
- It is encrypted except when in use by the patient or her provider.
- It is password-controlled to two levels; patient can lock individual records.
- The patient’s records are stored on her MedKaz, not on someone else’s server that can be hacked.
- They are erased from the MedKaz Server when the patient, her doctors, family or other designated recipients have downloaded them.
- Powerful All records from all providers are instantly searchable.
- MedKaz manages all electronic and paper records, regardless of how they were created or are formatted.
- All documents can be instantly searched; they open to the first page containing the search term which is highlighted.
- Records can be shared as pdf documents, structured data or both, with doctors, family members, care givers, researchers.
- It works during power, Internet, ransomware outages, and natural disasters. All that’s needed is a charged computer.
- Empowering The patient owns it. It moves with her, gives her peace of mind.
- It empowers her to understand her issues, recall what her provider told her, know what she’s supposed to do, better manage her care.
- She can correct mistakes if there are any.
- It empowers her doctors first to understand her issues, history and care from all her doctors.
- It then empowers them to coordinate her care, and avoid costly medical errors and unnecessary visits, tests, procedures.
- It enables family members and care givers to understand her health issues and ensure she follows her doctors’ instructions.
- It does not require administrative organizations to manage extensive registries, databases or electronic networks.
- Financially Sound MedKaz is self-financing. It incentivizes everyone to do the right thing.
- The patient subscribes annually to MedKaz and its Update & Support Service.
- The patient pays for it, or her payer may give it to her as a wellness benefit.
- Patients save deductibles, copays.
- Payers enjoy fewer claims and lower health insurance costs — ROI can be extraordinary.
- Payers may pay additional financial incentives to both patients and payers.
- Providers enjoy new income: a financial incentive to upload their patients’ records to MedKaz Server, and additional incentives when they use their patient’s MedKaz during a visit.
- It saves the tens of million dollars it costs annually to administer silo-linking networks.
