The Official Omedix Blog

For a bunch of Internet-addicted web designers and programmers, it sure took us long enough to get our blog up and running.  But it’s finally here!

So what kinds of things do we plan on covering here?  Well, we’d basically like to answer the question “How can a physician practice make the best possible use of the Web?” 

There was a time when that question had a boring and uninteresting answer because there just wasn’t that much technology available.  But today things are different.  There’s online video, patient education, search engine marketing, great programming languages for developing cool personalized systems, and lots of other really exciting things.  Plus, integration with other healthcare IT systems (EMR, Practice Management System, PACS, etc) is starting to become a reality (the details on that one are for another blog posting).

For myself, personally (this is Josh writing), my father is a tech-savvy cardiologist, my sister is a pediatrician, my brother-in-law is an obstetrician/gynecologist, and I’m an entrepreneur and computer programmer so it’s pretty gratifying to see how my skills/interests apply to their lives!

There’s something else we wanted to do with this blog.  Companies today are different than they were 10 years ago.  Back in the day, companies were closed, mysterious entities whose true workings was the stuff of legend and myth.

Today, companies like that appear almost silly.  People now expect honesty and transparency.  The Web just makes it too easy to communicate so why fight the tide instead of embracing it? 

So perhaps most of all, this blog is us being who we are as we further hone our skills as Web Professionals for Medical Practices, and as we ourselves figure out how we can do a better job of what we’re doing.  I’ll probably be the author for most of these posts (no one else seems to like writing anything but code!), but we might have some guest contributors from time to time (I can think of some Omedix clients who might be game!)

Thanks for taking the time to learn about us, and we look forward to writing more!

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