I don't see the "major upgrade" here. As a doc you can already use Square to process payments, and you can look up "real time insurance information" easily already via the web.
Breathless pronouncements from a supposed technical company that physicians will use their app because it "makes them feel modern" are a trifle annoying. Docs will consider using an app like this when (if ever) it is demonstrated that input/dictation of specialized vocabulary is robust on pads, and when (if ever) there is something at all good to say about trusting a commercial third party to store a practice's protected health information remotely, eg when (if ever) questions about security, access levels and logging, deletion, and backup policies of remote data storage of protected health info are fully addressed.
> As a doc you can already use Square to process payments
Yes, but the application is integrated with the Square app to make it more efficient. Payments made via square also automatically sync with our billing/accounting section of our application, which saves the doctor/biller a lot of time. If the doctor is solely using square to take patient payments, then the accounting is basically automated through our system.
> you can look up "real time insurance information" easily already via the web.
Most doctors call the insurance company directly to verify eligibility. Checking via the iPad (which is already used to onboard the patient) saves the doctor or front office some time.
> Breathless pronouncements from a supposed technical company that physicians will use their app because it "makes them feel modern" are a trifle annoying
Doctors want to feel modern. It helps bring in patients. How do you feel when you go to a doctor still using paper, and wait 5 minutes for them to shuffle through file folders to find your chart?
From the title i assumed they would see insurance data, client would pay drchrono which the real insurance copay is, drchrono would pay dr and handle the bogus "fake insurance prices becoming real prices in a few months" crazies.
But agreed. If it's just a cheesy app,flagged. Obviously spam.
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I don't see the "major upgrade" here. As a doc you can already use Square to process payments, and you can look up "real time insurance information" easily already via the web.
Breathless pronouncements from a supposed technical company that physicians will use their app because it "makes them feel modern" are a trifle annoying. Docs will consider using an app like this when (if ever) it is demonstrated that input/dictation of specialized vocabulary is robust on pads, and when (if ever) there is something at all good to say about trusting a commercial third party to store a practice's protected health information remotely, eg when (if ever) questions about security, access levels and logging, deletion, and backup policies of remote data storage of protected health info are fully addressed.
> As a doc you can already use Square to process payments
Yes, but the application is integrated with the Square app to make it more efficient. Payments made via square also automatically sync with our billing/accounting section of our application, which saves the doctor/biller a lot of time. If the doctor is solely using square to take patient payments, then the accounting is basically automated through our system.
> you can look up "real time insurance information" easily already via the web.
Most doctors call the insurance company directly to verify eligibility. Checking via the iPad (which is already used to onboard the patient) saves the doctor or front office some time.
> Breathless pronouncements from a supposed technical company that physicians will use their app because it "makes them feel modern" are a trifle annoying
Doctors want to feel modern. It helps bring in patients. How do you feel when you go to a doctor still using paper, and wait 5 minutes for them to shuffle through file folders to find your chart?
edit: formatting
The most interesting thing about the announcement is that Square apparently now has an (unannounced?) integration method.
From the title i assumed they would see insurance data, client would pay drchrono which the real insurance copay is, drchrono would pay dr and handle the bogus "fake insurance prices becoming real prices in a few months" crazies.
But agreed. If it's just a cheesy app,flagged. Obviously spam.