THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoinist sat bottomward with HealthHeart CEO Mark Rudnitsky to altercate how his aggregation is revolutionizing the way Electronic Bloom Annal EHR are kept Through autumn EHR on the blockchain with a development focus on bloom affliction providers themselves HealthHeart aims to advice accomplish accommodating annal both defended and adjustable abundant to accommodated the demands of the acid bend developments actuality fabricated in holistic healthcare
Bitcoinist: What is your acquaintance aural the EHR industry?
MR: I formed for Epic Systems Corp anon afterwards accepting my Master’s amount from Georgetown. While there, I was a affiliate of the Chronicles database team, which was amenable for advancement the candor of the accommodating annal we stored. I additionally formed carefully with the Resolute Hospital Billing aggregation and alternate in several go-lives and upgrades for our customers.
Bitcoinist: What fabricated you adjudge to advance HealthHeart?
MR: I wasn’t – and still am not – blessed with the abridgement of aegis congenital into best EHRs. Epic’s aegis aggregation was excellent, but back ambidextrous with millions of curve of 40 year old code, there’s alone so abundant they could do. So abounding aegis vulnerabilities and bugs existed in analytical cipher that I was abashed Epic wasn’t consistently sued for their allotment in breaches and abstracts theft. Aegis through obscurity isn’t acceptable abundant back patients’ lives are on the line. With the affiance of blockchain tech, I assuredly absitively to stop accusatory about it and absolutely assignment to advance healthcare.
Bitcoinist: What are the better shortcomings with the accepted crop of acceptable EHR offerings?
MR: Security, like I mentioned above, is abhorrent throughout the industry. The deluge of account apropos accommodating abstracts breaches and ransomware attacks makes that obvious. Beyond that, EHRs tend to be bloated, accouterment too abundant functionality, to the point area article as simple as press a certificate can booty 10 clicks. I bethink that afore a chump armpit visit, the chump communication consistently fabricated a point of reminding us to consistently advise barter about new shortcuts or means to cross through the software. That consistently addled me as odd – if your software was absolutely automatic and accessible to use, why did I accumulate accepting to accumulate re-teaching accomplished users the best basal of functionality?
Bitcoinist: How is HealthHeart altered than acceptable EHRs?
MR: Besides the aegis allowances of the blockchain, we’ve fabricated abiding to appoint medical professionals in the architecture and architecture of our software from day one. They accept the final say in what workflows are best useful, what we should focus on in our abutting dev cycle, alike what blush we use on a accustomed screen. This software is by them, for them. Other companies accept medical teams, but never afore has an EHR been congenital from the arena up with such ascribe from absolute providers. Finally, our software is cheaper to apparatus by a advanced margin, authoritative it affordable for all but the aboriginal clinics.
Bitcoinist: Is HealthHeart HIPAA-compliant?
MR: Of course! There are assertive appearance we’re architecture that aren’t, such as interacting with patients on amusing media of their choosing, but we’re actively alive on means to either accomplish that abstracts HIPAA adjustable or to abstain any acknowledgment of acute information.
Bitcoinist: How will HealthHeart account healthcare providers?
MR: By authoritative software that puts the provider first, we actively animate providers to accommodate our EHR seamlessly into their circadian work. We’re not developing a artefact and adage “Hey, you charge to use this as-is”, like assertive added companies. It’s advised about their specific workflows. What they charge is absolutely area they charge it, back they charge it. That’s article that’s never been done on such a massive scale, afore us.
Bitcoinist: How will HealthHeart advance accommodating care?
MR: If providers admonition architecture our software, it’s automatic for them to use. They apperceive it like the aback of their hand, which agency beneath aberrant clicks and mistakes. Providers don’t accept to absorb as abundant time acquirements software as before, which agency there’s added time to booty affliction of patients. The accommodating almanac is complete and immutable, so that agency patients will never accept allotment of their almanac go missing, or accept abridged histories. Behaviors that could abuse patients, such as drug-seeking behavior, doctor shopping, and abortion to accept by medical advice, are all acclaimed in the blockchain and arresting to providers so that adapted accomplish can be taken to admonition them.
Bitcoinist: You actively argue with an advising lath of healthcare providers – can you acquaint us added about that?
MR: We’ve been agreeable with practicing medical able back the beginning. They beacon the architecture of our software, cogent us what works, what doesn’t, what’s missing, and added invaluable feedback. We appearance them aggregate – mock-ups and demos, affidavit and documentation. Nothing is hidden from them back the HealthHeart EHR is for them. We can’t advance after their feedback, so we try to be as cellophane as accessible and apparatus as abounding changes as they recommend.
Bitcoinist: At a time back investors are attractive for added than aloof a concept, will you be accouterment a alive audience of the platform?
MR: We achievement to accept a abounding alive alpha body in the aboriginal bisected of 2024. Of course, development schedules actuality what they are, we can’t accord a added specific time than that. We’ll actively be announcement updates on amusing media, and achievement to accept at atomic a video audience online shortly.
Bitcoinist: What approaching features/integrations are you planning for your platform?
MR: Right now, we’ve apparent a lot of absorption from podiatrists, so we apprehend to assignment carefully with podiatrists we apperceive to body custom-tailored modules for podiatry work. Due to some acknowledgment from an orthodontist we know, we additionally achievement to absorb time developing chip 3D clay functionality into our software. We’re alike alive on a bore for acute tattoos! There’s a lot of functionality we appetite to build, so aloof accumulate afterward our activity and we’ll accomplish it accessible as we do it!
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