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New networking platform connects docs via smartphones

March 08, 2011 | Molly Merrill, Associate Editor

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SAN MATEO, CA – Doximity, a new health technology company from the founders of Epocrates, has launched a physician network platform that links medical professionals via their iPhone, Android device or computer to collaborate on patient treatment or find appropriate experts.

According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, communication breakdowns between care providers are the root cause of 65 percent of serious medical errors. Doximity aims to address these communication challenges with what officials are touting as the first online community for medical professionals to engage in fast, secure and HIPAA-compliant communications.

[See also: Report: Social networking can improve care, lower costs.]

The Doximity community, which numbers more than 7,000 U.S. physicians, was founded in October by Jeff Tangney, the co-founder and former president & COO of Epocrates. InterWest Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, is the lead backer of Doximity.

The app, which is free, allows members to:

  • Find fax, phone number, insurance info, clinical interests,
and languages spoken for over 567,000 U.S. physicians
  • Exchange private phone lists, back lines, pagers and send
HIPAA-compliant messages to colleagues (all physicians are verified via three-step credential check)
  • Connect with former classmates and residents
  • Access phone numbers for 24-hour pharmacies, 
hospitals and labs

"Our teenagers today have better communications technology than our doctors," said Tangney, who serves as Doximity's CEO. "Since e-mail and SMS are not secure, most doctors and their office staffs are forced to fax or page each other. Doximity is designed to make secure, cross-organizational, medical-grade group messaging easy."

[See also: Kalorama: Medical mobile app market worth $84.1M.]

Doximity pre-populates its national directory with practice information from the National Provider Identifier, Medicare, and other HHS databases.

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Reader Comments (4)Login to Post a Comment

pchoca says: New Networking Platform
March 14, 2011 | 5:30PM GMT

Nothing you do on the Internet is safe, just like you can't protect your house from a determined burglar. So the question becomes "How easy or how difficult is it to break into a system?"

clarage says: Other netowrks
March 14, 2011 | 9:44AM GMT

There are other networks out there. My hospitalist group uses Concentrica. Allows us additional features such as document exchange and group discussions with physicians in other facilities.

--Arthur Williams, MD

J Dennard says: So What's the Answer?
March 14, 2011 | 8:02AM GMT

On the surface, this technology seems like it would be of great benefit to providers, as we read reports/statistics everyday telling us how large smartphone and tablet adoption is amongst healthcare providers. However, the other reader's comment about data being ripe for the picking with technology of this nature leads me instead to ask any providers out there "Will you use this, or will you avoid it due to security concerns?"

Mr. Key says: EMR connect via wireless phone
March 08, 2011 | 12:51PM GMT

I want you to stop one minute and think back about a week ago when on national TV they showed a news story how someone with an RFID reader can just walk up behind you and pass the book or case they were holding with the RFID reader in it and gather all your credit card info, instantly.

Now go back about 15 years when someone sitting in a parking lot using a scanner could actually copy your cell phone number and codes and then make all the calls they wanted to. As technology improved, so did the bad guys equipment too.

Why make it that much easier for someone to "STEAL" your medical information and Soc Sec number, address etc: right out of the air? Don't you realize that wireless (called radio waves) circumnavigate the globe every day never ending circles of data and information just waiting to be "plucked" from the sky.. Want to hear an old radio show from the 30's or 40's, if you had the right scanner frequency you could listen to the Jack Benny show, or the Shadow etc: or pick medical information out of the air.
We know that medical fraud is 10 times greater than credit card fraud, so why expose your patients to that or why put your office records at risk as well?
I am not a crusader for prevention of medical theft or theft in general, however as the inventor of a product that has nothing to do with wireless or the storage of data on line, i feel that my insight prevents all of the above from happening. It took me 5 years to develop what i have created and i am willing to share it with those that want to at least look it over!

So you make the call, be vulnerable or be protected and 100% secure? it is up to you..
That is my opinion and view.. thank you...

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