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MDconnectME CEO Scott Anzel on how the company’s service helps doctors update patients’ families and friends while a procedure is in process.
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I'll note that feeling of sitting anxiously in a hospital waiting for -- doctor or -- to come walking through the double doors just give us an update our loved ones or if you're in a different state you're waiting for an update maybe through the cell phone system.
Well what if you could receive instantaneously.
Updates on the patient's progress.
On your cell phone now there is a technology that is letting doctors do just that for patients and their families.
Scott -- as the CEO and president of this think it's called dean connect me great to have you would we saw this we -- get I want because.
First of all we -- entrepreneurs here Fox Business but secondly.
It feels a need and those are the best kind of businesses talk about what MD connect me -- polio.
And to connect these a secure.
Health -- communication experience synchronous so now patients and their families can be connected.
Instance he's -- -- the hands of the providers.
Anywhere in the world so for example.
We all have.
-- -- say a loved one that might have met Michael and surgery.
Patients going into surgery.
Patients going into recovery for example.
And you can get these instantaneous updates.
Right on your device take -- how does that -- you ask your doctor or the doctor reaches -- to you and so did so the doctor actually send you an invite.
You accept the invite and you just pick a list of close contacts on average we see about.
Five contacts.
How much -- -- cost right now it's complementary for the patients.
And we're gonna actually offer a different services for the hospitals for example.
Will charge for.
So -- bookmarking services.
We'll have profit -- Yeah advertising.
Commerce services double.
Profit and revenue share with us.
You came up with this idea with a friend of yours was a surgeon at the Cleveland clinic correct doing massive very serious surgery that was facial -- face transplant defense bestseller -- -- -- 23 hour surgery you're talking to him afterward and and -- what are -- have been getting hobbled by everybody's family members and friends and and wouldn't it be easy if.
So does -- have is the occupant is a communication.
Superstore base and you know -- did the limitations they have.
And you know that he had several devices he can just sent an update -- so that that's where the the idea basically came.
You've got grandma grandpa -- Zeta gamma camp I think what tell me how he's doing and and who wasn't -- I'm not -- sympathetic with surgeons because my dad was a doctor did say.
I've got to sit after surgery the suspect in the old days and dial -- -- numbers afterwards to say they came out -- right.
So I -- are you working -- with hospitals how are you getting some critical mass going here.
Price of the way we're gaining traction is.
We're working with top US news world report hospitals around the country.
In different areas surgery.
How and that's -- we're gaining credibility with the medical community.
I think it's just a brilliant idea in the end though you gotta have money to make money or the venture capitalists helping out well we're actually in the process of raising money right now.
Are you profitable consider them are making money were not without proper right now we believe debt.
We're building more value by establish these pilots around the country that will eventually turn into.
Revenue producing partners.
Everybody walks this is the beginning it is the incipient stage of what I -- David is gonna be a great business -- MD connect me.
Because who among us hasn't waited in -- waiting room or at home.
Wringing our hands worried about it Scott thanks so much thank you very much Scott and -- is -- chairman and co -- CEO you get all the titles are now there are many assets of MD connect to -- David.
