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exact GPS location. Clearly, it provides the ultimate safety net everywhere, all the time, with no base units, installation fees, or contracts, and no middleman operators. Safety. Simply. Wolf and his partners in Systemedical LLC have already begun the process of contacting state and local government health care agencies about the benefits of their groundbreaking app, not to mention insurance companies, major hospital systems and other health care providers. Wolf added another significant longterm benefit for the entire health care system. “It will also help avoid redundant testing and errors due to knowledge gaps,” he said. “We can avoid unnecessary expenditure and risk, keep patients safe with the emergency button, and by incorporating the web application, provide an easy interface for home tele-medicine and tele-monitoring. It will ultimately allow people to stay at home rather than move to facilities (often called aging-in-place), decrease unnecessary re-admissions to hospitals, and keep patients healthier and safer.” The app is essentially Wolf ’s brainchild and he said it’s taken more than a year just to have it developed. Getting listed in the Apple Store involved a rigorous vetting process that frequently rejects applicants for not meeting its demanding standards. Not so with ChartSnap. A Washington, D.C. native, Wolf graduated from St. Albans, with an undergraduate degree from Princeton. He went on to medical school at George Washington University with an orthopedic residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York and a fellowship in arthroscopy and sports medicine in Richmond. He temporarily moved away from full-time practice in 2005 when he sold his tele-radiology company to two investment banks, but still sees patients part-time several hours a week. Wolf also is an avid horseman and long-time fox-hunter and knows full well that the SOS feature on the new app would certainly be a great help for riders in distress out in the hunt field. “We’re very excited about all the possibilities,” Wolf said. “The applications are endless.”
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or many years, Dr. William Wolf was head of orthopedic surgery at Shady Grove Hospital in Rockville. Like countless physicians, he often was frustrated by not having the most upto-date and full medical histories of his patients. Now, he’s doing something about it. Along with his partners, Middleburg venture capitalist Steve Lamb and Dr. Oscar Ellison, a great Great Falls internist, he has developed ChartSnap, a new mobile and web app that’s already been accepted and available in the Apple App store as a free download for the first year, then $15 a year thereafter. ChartSnap users will have instant access to their entire medical record and information anywhere, any time. It can collect and store medical information on an ongoing basis to generate a fully portable lifetime mobile medical record, drug history and home health device record that goes with them to each and every point of care, using the cell phone camera to capture information. ChartSnap does the rest. In other words, any doctor you visit will have access to your entire medical history from your previous medical visits, all at the full control of the patient. That also includes the ability to gather information collected from any and all Electronic Health Records (EHR), Labs, Xray and MRI facilities, among other information. “Let’s say you’re in Dallas on a business trip and you’re having chest pains,” Wolf said in a recent interview. “Now you go to the emergency room, and this app will give them instant access to all of your medical records. Everything, and that can only be a great help to you and to your doctors. Maybe it saves your life. ” A long-time Middleburg area resident, Wolf is truly excited about another innovative feature of the ChartSnap app—a mobile Personal Emergency Response System (PERS). You’ve seen those TV commercials directed mostly at senior citizens and their concerned adult children for the electronic device worn around the neck to summon help if you’ve slipped and fallen and can’t get up, obviously a frequently realistic nightmare scenario. It costs a fortune and requires a complex set-up and long contract. The ChartSnap app takes that concept to a stratospheric new level. Everyone who uses it—students at school, grandma at home, you stuck in the middle of nowhere with a medical problem—has a single button which, when pressed, calls 911 directly. With a second button push, the app texts 911 operators and your emergency contacts, like designated family members, in real time. It also sends essential medical information—diagnoses, medications and allergies, as well as your GPS location. If your mother has fallen in the bathtub, if your daughter is lost at her new school, if you’re simply scared stiff on a deserted street and think you’re being followed, press the ChartSnap SOS button and 911 is on the phone. Press again and your family is alerted, and everyone knows your
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