PETALMD
In the healthcare sector , every minute is invaluable . Offering innovative web solutions for healthcare professionals , PetalMD is helping physicians save valuable time so they can save lives
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I ncredible advancements have continued to disrupt the healthcare sector but , behind the scenes , a lot of administrative work is still done with the faithful pen and paper . In a sector where time is of the essence , this has created a mammoth hurdle but it is one which Patrice Gilbert hoped to overcome when he founded PetalMD .
The idea came to him when he talked to doctors and nurses about their daily grind in the healthcare sector . “ I was shocked by their use of technology ,” he recalls . “ I realized that there was a real lack of technology penetration . In the beginning , I really saw how that , when it came to administrative tasks like scheduling , people were making decisions not based on data but subjective matters and I knew something had to change .”
One of the largest drains on time that Gilbert identified was the creation of on-call schedules . Puzzling over Excel sheets and trying to juggle conflicting time constraints of physicians means that creating schedules can cost valuable hours of time — time that could be spent saving lives . By digitizing the entire process , the
DECEMBER 2018