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MDconnectME is a secure, patient-directed communication network that lets health care professionals share real-time medical information with patients and their loved ones.

Healthcare professionals benefit from an efficient, HIPAA & HITECH compliant communication method.

Patients and their loved ones receive the comfort and support they need, when they need it most.

MDconnectME makes provider-patient communication easier than ever. Patients simply create a profile and choose the family and friends that will receive status updates. Compatible with iPhone, iPAD, Android, PC, and other devices, MDconnectME works with any platform. Users have access anytime, anywhere.

History
In December 2008, company Co-founder Dr. Chad Gordon was on the team of eight surgeons who successfully completed the nation's first face transplant at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Gordon, who won the clinic's patient compassion award, spent four days during the patient's recovery bridging communication between a team of over 50 surgeons, doctors and nurses and the patient's family.

Using traditional communication methods, Dr. Gordon was challenged by HIPAA regulations and the difficulty of coordinating secure lines of communication and organizing family contact information.

He commented that, "in reviewing our team's experience, I realized immediately that critical time was lost since 21st century medicine was being impeded by current means of communication and that physicians and nurses are unfortunately stuck using outdated 20th century technology for communication with their patients and their patients' family and friends."

Dr. Gordon realized the need for a modernized, patient-directed, HIPAA-compliant, communication platform. With this, the MDconnectME vision was born. In August 2010, Dr. Gordon and health care communication veteran Scott Anzel formed MDconnectME, Inc.