? Electronic product creation
Jordan Shlain, MD
With the growth in technology, many doctors have undertaken the creation of products that make using EHRs, patient portals, and other communication systems easier for their colleagues and patients?some quite successfully. Jordan Shlain, MD, an internist and medical director at Current Health in San Francisco, founded HealthLoop in 2009 to facilitate regular monitoring of patient health via daily, automated emails.
Such efforts may even lead to a new career that uses your medical background.
Jonathan Bertman, MD, FAAFP
Jonathan Bertman, MD, FAAFP, a family physician in Rhode Island, developed the Amazing Charts EHR system out of frustration with cumbersome medical office management and record systems. "I was practicing family medicine in an underserved area of Rhode Island and simply was not able to make a decent living within the insurance reimbursement system. I wanted to go paperless, but all the EHR systems were too expensive," he says. "Once I finished programming my own EHR, I put it online, and another physician bought it. That's when I decided to start a software business, which eventually became my full-time occupation." Today, the company provides him with an income several times greater than what he would be making as a family physician, he says.
