Half doctor/half app developer, how physicians are changing healthcare technology

With everyone and their mother trying to make a name for themselves in the technological world of app creation, why can’t physicians try it out too? Well now they are, by helping to develop applications from the minds on the front lines of healthcare, reports Forbes.

Medelinked, a secure online health cloud service where users build a personal health profile and are able to connect their healthcare provider with all their information, has developed their “Medelinked Healthcare Innovations Exchange” as a way to bring together clinicians together to share ideas with developers to create and co-create a variety of products and services.

The aim of the Exchange is to create a space of teamwork between developers and physicians that can benefit patients by providing faster, quality, and cost effective apps. Using a “bottom-up” approach, the exchange has goals to reinvent the healthcare application space by building from the bottom rather than the top.

Using the “bottom-up”, rather than using a “top-down” approach is able to provide a kind of relationship between software programmer, platform, professional practitioner and, user that makes for applications to be created in a better quality, because of the first-hand experience of physicians who see what their patients need and want, and at a faster rate when the communication between all parties is done quickly through the digital exchange.

“Accessing the Medelinked Healthcare Innovation Exchange is quick and easy. Those with a requirement simply fill in the form on the Medelinked website submitting the idea for the application that they wish to develop,” stated Medelinked. “This will then be directed to appropriate developers within the Medelinked Partner Development program for fulfillment.”

Using the Exchange LinkedIn group, physicians and developers are able to engage in community discussions about projects as well has being able to engage in Medelinked Innovation Exchange hackathon events to develop cutting-edge applications.

“The Medelinked Healthcare Innovation Exchange now makes it even easier to commission new systems to build the quality of patient relationships, service and care levels offered by professional, purchaser, provider and pharma organizations in our network,” said Ian Gallifant, Medelinked CEO.