Doctations Empowers Priority Pediatrics` Innovative New After Hours Pediatric Urgent Care Service

Thu Nov 5, 2009 9:31am EST
 
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Doctations real-time online electronic medical record keeping and information
sharing enables alternative to emergency rooms
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. & LYNBROOK, N.Y.--(Business Wire)--
Doctations, Inc., an innovative leader in applying Internet technology to
improve healthcare, provides Priority Pediatrics, a new after-hours pediatric
urgent care center, with fast, easy to use internet-based electronic medical
record keeping and practice management tools that enables the center to
efficiently deliver critical after hours urgent care to children and
adolescents. 

Opened in October 2009, Priority Pediatrics offers parents a calm, comfortable
alternative to hospital emergency rooms for non-life threatening medical
problems that occur after hours when primary care pediatricians` offices are
closed. They chose Doctations` powerful web-based solution for medical record
keeping and information sharing because it was the only fast, easy-to-use online
system that could enable them to keep up with rapid pace of urgent care
environments and deliver high quality, time-critical medical care to the most
vulnerable patient population. 

"Our goal is to give families a less stressful alternative to the typical
crowded, frenetic hospital ER experience, so it`s vital for us to be highly
effective and efficient," commented Dr. Robert van Amerongen, medical director
for Priority Pediatrics. "If it takes two or three minutes to diagnose a medical
problem, it shouldn`t take fifteen or twenty minutes to document and discharge.
The Doctations system is fast and simple to use, allowing us to record all the
crucial medical data quickly so we can spend the majority of our time treating
patients. Doctations enables our urgent care practice while helping us achieve
our objective of a paperless office at the same time." 

Priority Pediatrics augments the services of patients` primary care
pediatricians, so collaborative communication with primary care providers is an
essential element of the center`s practice. With the Doctations system, the
center`s providers can easily communicate and share medical information online
with other doctors such as digital Xrays, EKGs and test results as well as
diagnoses, medications and urgent care treatments administered. For example, in
the case of a broken bone, the center`s team can share the child`s Xrays and
treatment details with the primary care pediatrician and orthopedist in real
time over the web for seamless healthcare. 

"Doctations is committed to improving healthcare by automating medical records
keeping and practice management, facilitating collaboration among physicians and
empowering the doctor-patient relationship," said Jerry Kolosky, COO of
Doctations. "It`s gratifying to see how our system is enabling Priority
Pediatrics to provide a novel new urgent care service that spares children and
parents the trauma of ER visits, facilitating collaboration with other
healthcare providers and empowering parents with more control over their
children`s medical care. Priority Pediatrics is a perfect example of how
Doctations is helping to revolutionize healthcare delivery." 

About the Doctations System

Doctations provides Internet-based technology as a service to physicians, other
healthcare providers and patients - and forms the basis for connecting
practices, providers and patients in one Internet space while simultaneously
maintaining the privacy of each practice and patient. 

The Doctations solution gives physicians easy, online, on-demand access to
patient medical records, medical information databases and shared patient
databases, and empowers patients with the ability to share a single, complete
set of information, or medical record, with their doctors, and collaborate
interactively with their healthcare team. By implementing the medical practice
management and digital documentation solutions as web-native tools, Doctations
provides doctors and patients with advanced, secure, HIPAA compliant,
comprehensive solutions that are substantially less expensive than any other
options currently available. 

About Priority Pediatrics

Priority Pediatrics is an after-hours urgent care center designed and staffed
exclusively for infants, children, adolescents and young adults ages newborn to
21 years. It offers parents a calm, comfortable, child-friendly alternative to
hospital emergency rooms when a child gets ill or injured at night and on
weekends, when the primary care pediatrician is unavailable. The facility is
fully equipped with the same equipment, supplies and medications for treating
non-life threatening medical conditions as the best pediatric emergency rooms.
Located in Lynbrook, New York, Priority Pediatrics serves communities in the
Long Island area. For more information visit www.prioritypediatrics.com

About Doctations

Doctations Inc. has created an innovative, internet-based means of transacting
healthcare. Doctors simply login to www.doctations.com to register, and for
about the price of a cell phone subscription, they are given all of the tools
needed to run an efficient, state-of-the-art medical practice. The goal is to
leverage the Internet to make healthcare more accessible to patients and to
substantially improve the processes of healthcare such as generating medical
documentation, medical billing and denial management. Doctations brings
physicians the benefit of the first true internet EMR and PMS without the burden
or expense of difficult-to-use software. Our technology is updated monthly to
accommodate new users and new ideas from our member physicians, other healthcare
providers and patients. 

For more information, please visit www.doctations.com or call
1-877-Doc-Patient.

Belinda Banks
SS | PR
609 750 9110
belinda@sspr.com

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