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Doctations Applauds US Presidential Candidates' Call For Medical Reform, Greater Health Care Efficiency

Posted on: Thursday, 9 October 2008, 18:00 CDT

Doctations, Inc., developer of DocPatientNetwork.com, a unique Internet-enabled On Demand Healthcare System designed to help doctors and patients form online collaborative networks, applauds our US Presidential candidates, Senator Barak Obama and Senator John McCain in their push for greater government efficiency and significant cost savings using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs).

Health care accounts for an estimated $2 trillion piece of the US economy that plays an essential role in the daily life of all Americans. Both the Obama and McCain campaigns are proposing cost-control strategies in their healthcare reform plans and are pushing for the adoption of electronic medical record keeping.

Forty years after the first EMR software was developed, 85% of all doctors are not using it today, despite institutional mandates and even past presidential pressure to reform the system to bring medical records to 21st century technologies, realizing greater efficiency. Notwithstanding the organizational benefits of EMRs, this connected medical community of data benefits the patient in the greatest way of all - cohesive and safe care. Creating a universal Patient Health Record that contains all patient test results and treatment history that is globally accessible by the patient, physician, and through the entire medical process could eliminate redundancies in medical testing by giving all treatment providers access to all records and may even save a life through quicker diagnoses and care or by discovering a lethal drug combination before it seriously injures a patient.

"This is exactly the type of program our country should be encouraging in order to stem growing costs in healthcare," said Dr. Louis Cornacchia III, M.D., F.A.C.S., and President and CEO of Doctations, Inc. "Automated services improve the efficiency and save money. We have seen this time and time again in our own DocPatient.com platform which provides a proven blueprint for EMR success in real world implementations. This approach provides greater security and significantly reduces the cost of health care services for everyone."

Doctations' system is collaboratively used by healthcare providers, patients, doctors and service providers to provide a highly secure, easy-to-use group of services that facilitate communication between doctor and patient. DocPatientNetwork.com securely connects the entire healthcare chain of custody from healthcare providers to patients, doctors, medical transcriptionists, medical billers and others through a federally enforced, HIPAA-compliant communication system and information exchange. The technology fits into existing electronic medical systems, requires no upfront software purchase by doctors or patients, and uses world-class data security and password-protected gateways to ensure privacy. Compatible across platforms and technology infrastructures, DocPatientNetwork.com works with popular Internet browsers including Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox, running on Microsoft Windows, Linux or Apple systems.

"We're excited to see this support for EMR in the US now on the national agenda and will continue our efforts to encourage the adoption among the medical community for the environmental, health and economic benefits the candidate's have recognized," continued Cornacchia.

Doctations is devoted to the growth and long-term viability of EMR adoption -- a growing industry that is strengthening America's healthcare system, promoting greater collaboration between patients and their medical practitioners and reducing outdated, time consuming paper and manual processes.

About Doctations, Inc.

Doctations(TM) Inc., is a company dedicated to creating innovative new, internet-based means of transacting healthcare. The goal is to make healthcare more accessible to patients, and to substantially improve the process of generating medical documentation in all venues of healthcare: the physician's private office, the physician group's office, the ambulatory surgery center, and hospitals. We bring users the benefit of electronic medical records without the burden or expense of difficult-to-use software. We also believe that free-market forces with appropriate government regulation is the best means of achieving improved doctor-patient relationships have concluded that the internet provides an excellent means for achieving this vision and for catalyzing change that will improve healthcare for patients and doctors. For more information, please visit: www.doctations.com.

Source: Business Wire

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