Medscribbler is developed and maintained by Scriptnetics Inc. (formerly Brunmed Inc ), a company established in 1999. Scriptnetics previously provided EMR consulting but now provides custom medical programming and has a number of related medical and other software programs, being electronic health records vendors as well. Medscribbler began to be developed by Scriptnetics in 2002, was released in 2003 ad continues in active development. Scriptnetics was the first among electronic medical record vendors to harness the power of the Tablet PC and handwriting recognition. The vision with Medscribbler is to bring healthcare providers a computer healthcare management system that is intuitive to learn and use while at the same time improving efficiencies to "get you there sooner" whether it is retirement, a shortened work week or documentation of an individual encounter visit. To make the vision a reality Scriptnetics through Medscribbler: - focuses on the individual physician and their needs as the primary design consideration and avoid making third party needs the design focus
- makes a variety of EMR products available that allow a physician to match their own business model needs, a first of any of the EMR companies
- continually searches for and incorporates the best technology available to be the most up to date of the electronic health record companies
- developed a "ground up" marketing strategy that emphasizes full disclosure pricing, truthful marketing claims and no EMR vendors pressure sales calls
| | - developed a comprehensive set of products that will be able to allow physicians to move from their office to patient care in a hospital with comparable technology interfaces
- focuses on replacing paper's physical nature but mimicking paper`s current work flow to replace physical work flow with electronic work flow
To achieve this vision in-house development and cutting edge, contracted programmers are used to achieve a high level of software. Emphasis is placed on the Microsoft development kit for the Tablet PC to achieve a high level of handwriting recognition. Medscribbler is programmed using the latest versions of quality tools like C#, Delphi, the commercial version of MySQL for smaller installations and Microsoft® SQL for larger installations. The lead system designer is Michael Milne, CEO and chief owner of Scriptnetics. Michael Milne has been involved with programming since the early '80s when he bought an Atari and started on his learning climb by writing some of the first printer drivers, as in those days little worked "out of the box". As the years progressed "computers" became more than a hobby with the constant requests from friends, neighbors and employers to "fix" their computers or networks. Design of various systems happened, including a library cataloging system for a South African College. Testing for year 2000 readiness of his wife's computer system, she is a family physician, discovered the practice management system inherited from a former owner would not survive so he designed a new system, hired programmers and founded Scriptnetics. Having a Masters degree with minors in anthropology and cross-cultural communication he applied this training to understanding what a physician really wants for their EMR. The result is Medscribbler. |
