New software gives doctors results on mobiles

Stan Beer
Monday, 10 October 2005 11:00

IT Industry - Development

A new software system developed by two Adelaide doctors provides medical specialists with faster access to test results and patient records through mobile broadband.

BOSSnet – an Internet-based medical information and retrieval system that has been designed for Telstra’s recently introduced mobile broadband network – was launched recently by Core Medical Solutions principals, Dr Rohan Ward and Dr Marc Belej.

“This international breakthrough brings information technology to doctors and specialists in a manner not possible in the past, and provides them with a crucial new tool to enhance decision-making and improve patient care,” managing director, Dr Ward, said today.

“Critical patient results often become available while the specialists are outside of their clinics, and can sit waiting in the system until a doctor or specialist can access them electronically,” Dr Ward said.

“Such delays can be crucial because, in many cases, the difference between life and death can be the time it takes a doctor or specialist to travel to a hospital.

“With BOSSnet – operating on a Smartphone or Personal Digital Assistant –pathology or radiology results are available the moment they are released by the laboratory.

“With all other patient records also accessible through BOSSnet, a specialist can make potentially life-saving decisions anywhere.

“A cardiologist could be reviewing a patient ECG at home before driving to hospital, saving critical time before treatment.  A district nurse could use BOSSnet to read a patient’s history at the patient’s home, and record treatment details before leaving.”

Dr Ward and Dr Belej both graduated from Adelaide University’s Medical School in the late 1990s and practised as doctors before founding Core Medical Solutions in 2000.

Core Medical Solutions is targeting a market for its new technology in which there are 1,500 medical specialists in South Australia and 20,000 nationally.

BOSSnet is sold under a licence arrangement with a monthly access licence costing $99 a month.