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Revolutionary Healthcare Documentation System Leapfrogs EMR and Improves Healthcare Delivery

(April 9, 2007)--Doctations announced the release of DocPatient.com, a website that will revolutionize and improve the way healthcare documentation is prepared and managed for years to come, leapfrogging current EMR systems. DocPatient.com is an internet-based medical documentation system bringing doctors, patients, office staff and service providers together asynchronously to accomplish tasks more efficiently and securely than ever before possible to improve healthcare delivery.

DocPatient.com  differentiates itself in the market by offering:

-- An intuitive online interface with realistic means for doctors to record their thoughts
-- Immediate cost savings starting with no upfront software purchasing and maintenance costs required by EMR systems
-- Increased convenience and freedom for the doctor -- Minimal start-up time, effort and cost
-- Fits easily into current practice systems and routines
-- Immediate financial benefit to doctor
-- Increased accuracy of data at time of encounter and on permanent record
-- Dramatic time savings relative to dictation/transcription and EMR data entry

Dr. Louis Cornacchia, practicing neurosurgeon and CEO of three-year old Doctations, said, "Realizing that functional EMRs are critically important today, but that only a small percentage of providers has embraced currently available systems, we focused on inventing a system which provides a practical, time-efficient and economical means for doctors to record their thoughts in digital medical records. DocPatient.com accomplishes this."

DocPatient.com, created by a team of practicing physicians with input from their patients, uses innovative technology to provide the following in an ultra-secure, fully HIPAA-compliant environment:

-- Integrated dictation and transcription
-- The Shared Patient Database
-- Facilitated collaboration between doctors and between doctors and patients
-- Audited re-use of data
-- Multi-media data recording

On the DocPatientNetwork, doctors don't have to type, point and click or scroll through lists of preprogrammed phrases. They can document as they do now, writing or dictating notes, even adding their own phrases, and have both transcribed using Doctation's in-line dictation at a rate 30-50% below current cost and no more expensive than pen and paper. The overall document cost is reduced by up to 80%, as is the doctor's time spent on it.

Clinically, the Shared Patient Database enhances a doctor's effectiveness by providing a heretofore unavailable complete history of his or her care for a patient, access to other providers' records for that patient and to the patient's own information, including prescriptions, allergies, current symptoms and compliance with the treatment plan.

Equally critical, it provides the doctor with complete documentation that generates insurance reimbursement commensurate with care.

Doctors' subscriptions are exceptionally cost effective. In fact, the basic tier is free and provides doctors with access to their patients' online medical data and the ability to produce up to a dozen digital medical records on a trial basis.

DocPatient.com, in addition to being a fully-featured medical documentation system, is also a multi-media, HIPAA-compliant "answering machine" which allows doctors to communicate securely with each other and their patients, encouraging the kind of doctor-doctor and doctor-patient communications rarely found today. This may well be the first commercially available, secure healthcare communications system of this kind in the world.

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