NU 12 #7 MBAH by Sugar Scalpel - Pinoy MD

NU 12 Professionalism: New Practice: Pinoy MD Search

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In this day and age of lightning fast connection and information technology, there are still other professions & industries that are slow in its adaptation. A noted profession that is a little slow in harnessing the power of information technology are doctors. If you make a survey of practicing doctors, a good majority are still using the archaic patient's chart in their clinic where they write down all the information about a patient including the diagnosis, illnesses, laboratory results, treatment, etc., usually on a piece of paper whose template are archaic in itself and usually given by medical representatives. So, if the secretary of a doctor is absent, the doctor himself/herself or a reliever will retrieve the patient's chart wasting precious time. In addition, if they are out of the clinic and somewhere else and suddenly receive a call from the emergency room of the hospital where he/she is practicing regarding a certain patient of his/her, most of the time its very hard to recall the last time the patient visited your clinic let alone remember his/her illness and the medications the patient is taking. Sounds familiar for most doctors? Yes of course. In this generation, we, doctors, should take full advantage of the technology, invest a little in computers/tablets/smartphones/phablets to be able to make our profession more efficient and productive, and at the same time, make good use of our time. 

Now comes Pinoy MD, a google type search engine for doctors with many more features. First, Pinoy MD will include the list of all doctors actively practicing in the country, together with their specialization, clinic hours, clinic or hospital location where they are practicing, telephone numbers and others where patients can see all this information thru a doctor's webpage. Included in the doctor's webpage are the clinical records of all patients but can only be accessed by the doctor with its corresponding codes. These informations are all stored in the cloud. In this way, the patients can make an appointment with their chosen doctor in the place convenient for the patients, the doctor can confirm the appointment and at the same time, the doctor can also immediately review the records of a patient if the patient has already visited the doctor's clinic before. Since these are all stored in a cloud, it can be accessed anytime anywhere and in whatever format the patient or doctor is using based on their device(iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, etc.)This will make the experience of a patient consulting with a doctor a breeze, and the doctor will be more efficient and knowledgeable about a patient whether in a consultation setting or an emergency setting where complete clinical patient information is just a click away.     3