The IDentometric Solutions LLC. (IDMS) Confidential Protected Personal Reminder  addresses unsatisfied consumer needs.

There is no product on the market with all the features and functions that are needed in a single handheld device.   Early market analysis with over 500 anticipated users stated they would buy this device if it were on the market.  Consumers of all ages stated that a memory device such as this would function as a second brain but would be more accurate.  With populations increasing and aging, our research noted that everyone has a need for similar types of services.  However, resources are finite and budgets are under constant pressure at home and work in these tough economic times.  Information exchanges between patients, children, guardians, insurance companies  and medical services providers leave a lot to be desired, creating a situation where millions of times over, “We do not have the time to it right the first time but we always have the time to it over and over again,” wasting millions of dollars in time and productivity.    IDMS contends that every day information exchanges cause  information gaps to exist, manual orders being misunderstood and not followed properly, and countless hours being spent “on-hold” resolving disputes and fixing mistakes.  Some patients even suffer serious consequences that affect their quality of life.    An essential change ingredient is needed that provides all consumers with what they need to know to make informed decisions while protecting the privacy of the individual.  This challenge has become aggravated by thieves who steal identities using Social Security/Medicare numbers.    

Initial Market Opportunity

Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies are concerned about senior citizens losing their Medicare information and healthcare records, There are currently four bills before Congress that seek to address this issue.  This is simply only one of the many areas where healthcare systems fall short of needs and expectations.  Although there has been gradual progress, healthcare tracking and reporting systems remain a major opportunities.  In large part, these systems are:

• Outdated, incomplete and poorly integrated

• Missing accurate and critical patient input

• Fraught with errors and omissions

• Understaffed for the amount of manual effort that is required

• Costing everyone too much

• Not taking advantage of improving technologies fast enough

• Held back by turf issues associated with how best to effect change

What else is needed?

Automatic, cryptographically protected and ACCURATE information exchanges are needed between care givers (doctors, dentists, specialists, laboratories, hospitals, nursing homes, and pharmacies), bill payers (insurance companies, Medicare) and patients.  Regulators (HIPAA, FDA, states) and medical researchers (CDC, NIH, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities) also need demographic, aggregated data to aid in planning and assessing programs and products.

Collecting and disseminating information on what patents are doing is spotty at best.  For example, are they following through on professional recommendations, including taking medications that have been prescribed, and what other over-the-counter medications are being taken regularly and never properly reported to their care givers, such as ones that were formerly controlled substances and vitamins.  An obvious challenge is preventing adverse drug interactions.

Our Vision for the Future

IDMS envisions that our automated personal information exchange systems will deliver and collect information in native formats from legacy systems, add patient input, translate and aggregate/consolidate the data streams, reconcile differences, report unresolved anomalies and issue reminders to those who can best impact favorable outcomes.  The result will be improved patient care; efficient, optimal use of resources; cost control; and aggregated data for medical research and product quality/efficacy control.

What expectations are realistic?

First, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it is unrealistic to expect our current healthcare challenges to be resolved quickly either.  It is also unrealistic for people to think that the other guy will fix things for us and that we can each sit back and do nothing.  We believe that every single individual has a role to play.  However, as the populace ages, it will become more and more difficult for each of us to do what is needed to monitor the services we receive.  For example, who has a good enough memory to accurately and completely fill out all the details of the questionnaires handed to us before a physical or emergency treatment?  What are the consequences of missing or inaccurate details (possibly death)?

IDMS has adopted a continuous improvement philosophy model

Our objectives, divided into two phases, will enable higher quality, less costly services for consumers as it improves accuracy and efficiencies in healthcare recordkeeping and communications.

1.   To help each and every individual gradually build a Personal Healthcare History that can be shared with professionals in time of urgency.

2.   To create accurate communications between consumers and providers that will eliminate errors and improve accuracy as discrepancies are automatically reported and resolved with minimal impact on existing systems.  Granular data will be restricted on a need-to-know basis to protect individual privacy and confidentiality.

The following diagram shows the current situation (in black) with two improvements highlighted. Phase 1 (red) involves short term manual initiatives, and Phase 2 (green) adds automation and security.

The Net Result

We believe accurate transfer and receipt of information will eliminate millions of dollars of rework and enable the US Healthcare system to deliver higher quality services faster, more securely.  The outcome of this initiative will increase the productivity of the people and systems involved, lowering the cost to provide services, and decreasing the errors and omission within the current system.  This can be accomplished without changing the systems that are in place today and by moving the responsibility for monitoring the accuracy of personnel information to the consumer.  Improvements and replacements will be made based upon the highest priority suggestions from clients and consumers within our IDMS continuous improvement model.

IDMS Investment Opportunity

We would appreciate your consideration of an investment in IDMS and its Confidential Protected Personal Reminder.   An initial prototype has been developed and is now being updated.  Funds are needed to finalize designs, manufacture products and market and sell them to everyone concerned about their health.

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