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Medical Web Technologies, LLC was founded in 2000 and is the developer of a suite of Internet-based medical information “tools” called One Medical Passport that address specific medical information tasks that are poorly performed at the current time. These tools are “disruptive technologies” that fundamentally alter the work process of obtaining, storing, formatting and distributing a patient’s medical information. In contrast to the traditional approach in which doctors and nurses in a medical facility ask a similar series of questions about medical problems, current medications, medical allergies, etc. and then write the information in their own section of the medical record, Medical Web Technologies’ approach is to obtain complete information from a patient once and then process it and distribute it to the appropriate medical staff. Furthermore, the “patient friendly” design of the Internet interface allows most patients to enter their own medical information, freeing up nurses and physicians from clerical level work that doesn’t require their advanced skills.
One Medical Passport uses a “patient-friendly” web-based portal to gather required medical information from patients scheduled for surgery. By answering a comprehensive series of questions online from home, patients are guided through the process of submitting a complete medical history. One Medical Passport then automatically processes the information into different downloadable report formats that meet the unique information needs of the nurses, anesthesiologists and surgeons who will care for the patient. This process allows the medical history to be simply verified with the patient, rather than obtained “de novo” multiple times, which reduces the time necessary to complete a preoperative assessment to a fraction of the customary time. Furthermore, because a patient’s information is available to a medical facility’s staff well in advance of the scheduled surgery and in a uniform format, the staff can rapidly select only those patients (typically 10-20%) with significant medical problems who would actually benefit from an in-person preoperative assessment at the hospital, allowing the other 80-90% of surgical patients the convenience of not having to make an additional, unnecessary trip to the hospital. This creates significant savings for the medical facility because of the markedly reduced number of patients requiring in-person preoperative assessments (which in most cases are not reimbursed by insurers) as well as the increased efficiency in interviewing those patients who do have an in-person assessment.
Today, One Medical Passport is used across the United States by over 300 medical facilities ranging from large academic medical centers to some of the most distinguished chains of ambulatory surgery centers. Please contact us to see how One Medical Passport can help your medical facility save money and run more smoothly. |
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