Physicians Signing-on to Health Industry's New HIPAA-Compliant Portal

In the first ten days after its launch, iMedicor has already recorded more than 3,712 registrations representing physicians and other healthcare providers across the United States. The iMedicor portal, which went live on October 9th, is the health industry’s first free, HIPAA compliant online personal health data exchange and secure messaging portal for physician collaboration, community and referrals. According to Vemics CEO and President, Fred Zolla, the new portal’s registrations have far exceeded the company’s initial projections.

“We knew that our proprietary HIPAA-compliant technology would be a tremendous benefit to physicians and their patients,” said Zolla. “However, the number of registrations in the first ten days has exceeded our first month projections. Needless to say, we are very pleased with how iMedicor is being received by the medical community.”

This week, Vemics also announced its partnerships with the Association of Black Cardiologists and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. More association announcements for iMedicor are expected in the coming weeks. The portal’s proprietary HIPAA-compliant technology and ability to enable health providers to exchange medical record data, x-rays, mammography, etc. are what distinguishes it from the chat-room-style portals for doctors currently in existence.

“A looming danger exists for healthcare providers on non-HIPAA compliant portals,” says Zolla. “Physicians can inadvertently violate HIPAA rules and subject themselves to tremendous liability. With all the extra tools out there now for the health care community - choosing which online tools to use is more important than ever in light of patient privacy concerns, liability for doctors, for their legal counsel in advising them and health care insurers in general.”

The launch of iMedicor’s portal comes on the heels of some of the world’s most influential companies entering the valuable personal health record (PHR) space. “Especially with Microsoft and Google entering the fray, we see multiple opportunities to partner with these important companies in the PHR area and create dynamic physician-sharing interfaces using iMedicor's proprietary HIPAA compliant system,” says Zolla.

Some of iMedicor’s features include:

• HIPAA compliant personal health information exchange, including documents & images
• An online referral and consultation community
• An expansive multi-specialty video and text based CME / CEU catalog
• A voice recognition driven medical documentation system
• Medical association section for regular interaction between associations and constituents.
• Access to healthcare-specific blogs and forums
• An events section that gives members and participating organizations the ability to publish up-coming events to gain exposure
• A practice improvement section that offers courses and information on better practice management
• Access to various educational resources as needed by Physicians and other health care providers

Through iMedicor, physicians will be able to securely communicate with other doctors, sharing HIPAA compliant patient files, records and images quickly and safely. The portal can also help doctors tap corresponding services from other professionals in the medical industry. Moreover, the portal environment allows for fundamental document creation and management tasks in a user-friendly, online environment. Costly transcription services and tedious handwritten documentation can actually be eliminated through iMedicor’s voice recognition advanced technology. iMedicor will also be a repository for Certified Continuing Medical Education courses and non-certified and product specific educational resources made available to any registered member on a non-intrusive opt in basis.