Touch Screen Technology Now for Physicians
2nd January 2012 · 0 Comments
Dr. Robert Abbate launched OneTouchEMR because he love a challenge.
After leveraging his background in software development to successfully launch and sell a web hosting company, he used the proceeds to put himself through medical school and actively practice medicine.
Once in the field, he learned how cumbersome and unyielding electronic medical record, or EMR, software was for doctors to use.
He decided he could create a better product and OneTouchEMR was born.
“I told myself once I got through all the schooling I could relax and enjoy my life,” he said. “But people were like, ‘you need to sell it, this is great,’ so now I am working hard again, I really enjoy this.”
OneTouchEMR is built to operate on newer touch-screen based devices such as iPad and Android tablets and employ a turn-key product which includes everything from training, support, upgrades and simplified pricing and all in one secure web-based location.
OneTouchEMR is currently in a beta testing phases in doctor’s offices, to hone and tweak the product, and has raised $250,000.
Now Abbate is looking to raise $1 million to continue the development, enhance infrastructure and manage the cloud computing, all of which he has intimate knowledge of, but needs staff to implement.
The potential in the EMR market for a simplified product that also appeals to the non-technical doctor and emphasizes ease-of-use, familiar work flows, and improving the bottom line is huge, Abbate said.
Only 30 percent of practices consisting of one or two doctors have converted to EMR and of those converted, 70 percent don’t fully use the EMR, while almost a quarter don’t use them at all, he said.
Over the more than 900,000 physicians nationwide, 26,000 reside in North Texas, where Abbate wants OneTouchEMR to initially target.
Photo of Dr. Robert Abbate founder & president of OneTouchEMR
