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Drchrono, a health care software as a service (SaaS) developer for AppleiOS, announced that it has added payment processing to itselectronic health record (EHR) app on the iPhone and instantinsurance-eligibility checking on the iPad. Patients can check insurance eligibility through Drchrono's EHRsoftware and through the OnPatient check-in app . Drchrono introduced OnPatient in August 2011. The company announced the payment-processing andinsurance-eligibility updates June 7. One time-consuming aspect of the doctor's office experience is aclerk or nurse calling an insurance company to check for insuranceeligibility and information on patients' deductibles andcoinsurance. Doctors and patients can now look up insurance statusinstantly on an iPhone or iPad. "A patient can see all their information, how much theircopayment is, how much their deductible is," Daniel Kivatinos,co-founder and chief operating officer for Drchrono, told eWEEK. Sometimes a doctor's office will submit a copayment and then findout later that a patient must pay coinsurance. The instantinsurance eligibility on the iPhone and iPad will clarify thepatient's financial responsibilities, said Michael Nusimow,cofounder and CEO of Drchrono . To take patients' payments using an iPhone or iPod Touch, adoctor's office can plug a Square credit-card reader into the device's audio jack. Square offers acredit-card reader for Apple iOS and Google Android devices. Providers can process payments using the practice-managementsection of Drchrono's platform. Physicians running a private practice can avoid purchasing a"clunky" check-out terminal and instead use the freeSquare credit-card reader on the iPhone, said Kivatinos . The portability of the iPhone could allow doctors to take paymentsduring house calls, he said. "Drchono is trying to make the physician and the wholepractice more mobile," said Kivatinos. The more lightweight use of the iPhone appealed to Drchrono, saidNusimow. Although Square offers integration with the iPad, Drchrono's Squarepayment feature is available initially on the iPhone and iPodTouch. The company plans to add this capability to the iPad in thenext couple of months. The Drchrono app on the iPhone can hide other menu items users maynot need at the moment, said Kivatinos. Doctors prefer Apple devices according to Manhattan Research, and Drchrono is looking to makeiPhone and iPod Touch more useful for providers. "The iPhone and iPod Touch are not being used right away in amedical setting," said Kivatinos. "The last four monthswe've been focusing on creating a different experience on theiPhone and iPod Touch," he said, referring to the menu-hidingcapability. "A lot of these apps are not designed to use the whole screenof the iPhone and iPod Touch," said Kivatinos. By offering its SaaS EHR, check-in and practice-management on theApple iOS, Drchrono is looking to get doctors off the computers onwheels (COWs) in hospitals and become more mobile. "If they want to go outside their hospital, they just can't intheir current state," said Kivatinos. "[By] adding real-time health insurance eligibilityinformation into the platform as well as mobile payment processing,we've provided some simplicity and a little bit of ease to aprofession that is undoubtedly stressful on a daily basis,"said Nusimow. "Ultimately, our goal is to have the technologyfade away into the background while physicians focus on whatmatters: the patient.". I am an expert from digitalmeasuringinstrument.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Ultrasonic Thickness Tester , Digital Concrete Test Hammer, Brinell Hardness Test Machine,and more.
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