Doctors are busy people. That’s a given.
What’s extremely frustrating to patients and caregivers is the seeming lack of communication among health-care providers. When Doctor A refers you to Doctor B who refers you to Doctor C and they aren’t on the same page, the end result can be exasperating, at best.
That’s where eHealth Technologies comes in. The Henrietta-based firm streamlines physician communication by providing analytics on the entire patient-referral process and making patient records more readily accessible to all involved.
“We make sure the information about a patient flows fast,” said eHealth Technologies CEO Ken Rosenfeld. “Instead of a doctor saying to a patient, ‘tell me about yourself,’ it’s ‘here’s your care plan.’ ”
Such communication would seem logical, but that’s not always the case. In the fast-paced, highly competitive world of health care, essential information isn’t always passed along quickly.
“We call it the ‘Empty Folder Syndrome,’ ” Rosenfeld said. “They’ll ask the same questions over and over again. … You want to make sure health-care providers share the information. You want to be able to see all of the information from the hospital, from the labs, from the imaging centers.”
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