— ROLE
Full-Stack Engineer
UX Design
Clinic Management
Billing & Insurance
Holding tiny babies for exams
— TECH
Ruby on Rails
Javascript
StimulusJS
PostgreSQL
Symmetric Encryption
Encrypted databases & disks
DigitalOcean with BAA
Google Drive + Zapier + Phaxio with BAA for electronic fax
VPN Tunneling
Prior to COVID, Dr. Lakshmi Swamy — an ophthalmologist trained at Cornell, Duke, and Casey Eye Institute, and my wife — embarked on a journey to start her own practice, with an eye towards a multi-location clinic+retail model that would help address the nationwide shortage of pediatric ophthalmologists (caused by burnout & high overhead).
Key would be: software that was built for the physician to focus on the patient — and drastically streamline revenue collection from insurers and patients. Fully HIPAA compliant, but not built for an insurance company and not optimized just to cover someone’s legal backside. Built for people.
I lived and breathed this world. Patient engagement, assisting in exams, assisting in billing, doing everything (except the medicine) and logging everything.
A Practice that Looks Different
Differentiation always matters. SeekMD differentiates with a focus on helping patients and families feel at home, in touch, and informed.
The first two slides are video! Press play.
Custom EHR and Practice Management System
Fix the system to provide better care.
For SeekMD, I built from the ground up an Electronic Health Recrds (EHR) system meant to work as an extension of the doctor — and make running her practice easier. UX is everything.
I hired a white hat healthcare security consultant to ensure we built a fully HIPAA- and HITECH-compliant system, using with first-class security standards including symmetric encryption, isolated network management, & breach notification.
Here’s a look at how the clinical note system can truly work with the doctor’s brain, rather than against it.
Other Notes
SeekMD is a custom-built EHR for pediatric ophthalmology.
We worked as a cofounding team member closely with the owning physician to build the a robust EHR that optimizes clinician workflow and convenient but detailed documentation.
Features include autosaving encounter notes, AJAX-powered functionality throughout, PDF generation for storing permanent impressions of data at specified points, and much more. Works on desktop and mobile.
We imported hundreds of megabtyes of public data to create auto-complete search for drugs (OpenFDA) and ICD-10 codes.
HIPAA-compliant infrastructure including PostgreSQL database with automated backups, encrypted at rest and in transit, with access limited via VPN. We also encrypt PHI at the field-level in the database, preventing a hacker from accessing patient information if they do compromise the database.
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