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Mobile Healthcare Blog | IQMax Expands Suite of Intelligent Mobile Solutions with IQRounds

February 10th, 2005 | | Posted in General News, IQRounds |

Capitalizing on the company’s industry leading mobile suite of dictation and charge capture applications, IQMax announced today their new inpatient mobile clinical results solution. IQRounds will provide care givers with easy, anywhere, anytime access to their inpatients’ clinical results and other pertinent patient data on their PDA.

When physicians make their inpatient rounds, they are typically dependent on a computer workstation or the paper chart to gain access to the most current results and updates from lab tests, radiology results, vitals, input/output, medications, etc. The challenge with workstations and paper charts is their limited accessibility.

While some hospitals have implemented wireless mobile (cart based) workstations and some have placed workstations in each patient room, most have not. These PCs, while enhancing accessibility, are typically bulky and shared between multiple patients and care givers.

For those institutions that are still primarily using paper charts, the accessibility challenges, along with maintaining timely updates to the record, grow exponentially over the computer based record.

The ultimate challenge is providing access to patient care results when the provider is away from the patient’s location. “IQRounds provides the perfect solution to this challenge,” says Paul Adkison, CEO of IQMax. “Our current patient centric, mobile solutions have significantly improved the work flow of care givers in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Since the majority of our users round at one or more hospitals, they have been asking for mobile access to their inpatient clinical results. With IQRounds, they will now have this access, anywhere, anytime.”

Scheduled for commercial availability in the second quarter of 2005, IQMax is currently seeking additional pre-release hospital partners.

“We will have several major institutions implemented prior to our general release date,” says Chris Harmon, CTO for IQMax. “By doing so, our pre-release partners will help us to refine our deployment processes while they will benefit from early implementation plus ongoing input to product functionality.”

IQRounds will operate in a wired, wireless and wide area wireless environment and will run on PocketPC and Palm OS PDA devices. Implementing IQRounds and all other IQMax solutions can be accomplished through the company’s ASP (IQAnywhere) or on their premise server solution (IQEnterprise).