Contacts:
Jon Blackman, MD
PocketMedTools
503. 887. 9215
Gean Rains
503. 297.1791
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [July 30, 2001]
Portland doctor launches PocketPractitioner™ for tracking patient histories on handheld devices.
Portland, OR (July 26, 2001) - PocketMedTools™ (www.pocketmedtools.com <http://www.pocketmedtools.com> ) announced the launch of one of the most robust PDA tools for the medical profession – PocketPractitioner™, and its PC equivalent PocketPractitionerOffice™.
PocketPractitioner contains a complete software application built for the Palm OS. It provides medical practitioners with the ability to easily track patient histories, diagnoses and procedures. It contains security features designed to help meet the new federal HIPAA requirements for the protection of patient information.
Using a beta test group of 35 medical practitioners who were assembled from medical groups over the Internet, Dr. Jon Blackman has been testing and enhancing this product. Two years in the making, this new software answers the needs of medical practitioners. It puts the patient's history and procedures right in the pocket of the health care professional.
Using PocketPractitioner for the Palm, a practitioner can update patient data as they go, easily capturing changes in diagnoses and medical notes. Then, when back at the office, the Palm can be synced to a PC for generation and printing of reports.
PocketPractitionerOffice™ contains the complete Palm application, a complete Desktop application, plus the complete CPT™ procedural codes and IDC-9 diagnostic codes licensed from the AMA. This version offers a rock-solid business application built on Microsoft Access (runtime included), designed to keep track of billing for small and large offices alike, at a fraction of the cost of comparable solutions.
About PocketMedTools
PocketMedTools was created as a web-based portal designed to offer handheld solutions for the mobile professional medical community. PocketPractitioner and PocketPractitionerOffice are the first of these tools.
Jon Blackman, M.D., MS -- Jon Blackman is a board-certified Family Physician with 20 years of clinical practice in Portland, Oregon. He has an M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MS in Medical Informatics from Oregon Health & Science University. He is currently in practice with Providence Medical Group.