MedWired Corporation

The eHealth environment today is one of tremendous complexity and confusion. As physicians, hospitals, and health plans rush to the Web in an effort to become 'web-enabled' and more efficient in their business processes, the patient focus has been lost. Practices are also realizing that even though they are embracing the eHealth movement, their resources and procedures are still disparate, causing loss of business efficiency and effectiveness.

MedWired Corporation understands the eHealth movement and the struggles that many physician practices face trying to embrace new technologies and capabilities. Our business is to make the Internet work for your practice. Even more important, we have provided hundreds of doctors with a comprehensive Internet strategy that requires minimal time and financial resources.

While the Internet promises to improve practice efficiency, and more importantly, strengthen the physician-patient relationship, the challenge to the physician practice is to find an Internet approach that is centered on the needs of the practice and its patients. MedWired's model meets this criteria through its Web Portal.

A Web Portal will provide the physician practice not only with an immediate presence on the Internet but, more importantly, with a dynamic, upgradeable platform for integrating patients, practice partners such as health plans and hospitals, and vendors to the practice. Most importantly, a Web Portal allows the physician and staff to utilize the Internet under the management of the practice! A true Web Portal is an Internet Management Tool for the practice that grows with the practice over time.

So, how does a Web Portal differ from a Web site? The following table illustrates what a Web Portal does for a Physician Practice compared to a Web site:

Physician Practice Web Portal vs. Web Site Comparison
	Web Portal	Web Site
Functionality	Marketing presence on web Patient education functionality Interactive patient communication functionality Integration of practice partner (hospitals/health plans/referring MD's) Internet strategies eCommerce eConsultation, eCare Business process applications Clinical applications such as Disease State Management	Marketing presence on web only
Architecture	Dynamic Interactive Upgradeable/Expandable: foundation for adding content/applications over time	Flat, static Not interactive
Key Uses	Patient Services Over the Internet: leverage the Internet for patient communication, patient education, eCommerce, and other content/services for your patients from your web portal Internet Management Tool for Practice: content/information for your practice, applications automating practice business processes, and tools for communicating with patients, practice partners, etc. Foundation for Practice's Internet Strategy: web portal is the foundation for organizing/ integrating all required Internet capabilities for the practice	Presenting marketing information on practice for general public Does not automate core practice processes such as communication, education, etc.

The purpose of this demo is to illustrate how a MedWired Web Portal can benefit your patients and practice. Please contact us at 1.877.985.2900 or by email at info@medwired.com if you have any questions or would like further information on our products or services. Click on the next button below to start this demo...