Taking Healthcare Mobile: BlkBag Boosts Healthcare Efficiency, Security, and Cost Savings
While smartphones have revolutionized nearly every facet of our daily lives, the healthcare industry often struggles to keep pace. Despite mounting clinician burnout and a well-documented staffing crisis referred to as the nation’s top patient safety concern, the sector continues to grapple with outdated processes, fragmented systems, and increasing inconsistency in insurance reimbursements.
Today’s clinicians face a myriad of frustrations, including cumbersome workflows and counter-intuitive record-keeping, resulting in less time for patient care—which is exactly what drew most of these individuals to healthcare in the first place. Simply put, clinicians got into the business to help people, not fill out paperwork to appease the legal and insurance sectors.
Digitizing paperwork to save time and increase efficiency
BlkBag is a clinician-centric mobile app that answers these challenges by digitizing healthcare workflows, optimizing patient encounters, and enhancing financial outcomes.
Conceived by Dr. Camil Sader, a general and minimally invasive surgeon who was frustrated by archaic paperwork, BlkBag became a reality through close collaboration and iteration with Monkton—leveraging our app development technologies and Anchorage for hardware based Zero Trust.
BlkBag’s cloud-based platform reduces labor-intensive paperwork inefficiencies and saves significant time. Described as "Instacart for clinician duties," BlkBag also ensures a super secure, user-friendly experience—without the need for training. Built with the most modern and secure tools available, the app works seamlessly on iPhones, iPads, and Android phones.
"I’m thrilled we can be at the forefront of healthcare disruption with BlkBag. As a technologist, witnessing the profound impact of smartphones on our daily lives highlighted a stark disparity in the healthcare sector,“ said Harold Smith III, Monkton CEO and Co-founder. “Yes, healthcare is broken—but, with the right technology, we have the power to fix it.”
Leveraging technologies like Serverless and Platform as a Service (PaaS) in AWS has enabled BlkBag to move at the speed of relevance for its users. These features enable us and BlkBag to focus on outcomes and let leading cloud service providers like Amazon to manage the hard parts.
These investments in FaaS and PaaS in AWS have resulted in a reduction of costs 90% for BlkBag in migrating from IaaS to FaaS and PaaS.
Security should come standard for clinicians and patients
BlkBag is not only HIPAA-Compliant, it leverages Monkton's extensive security expertise with the Department of Defense, meaning it exceeds industry standards and operates on classified workloads. It also wraps in Monkton Anchorage, a patented Zero Trust framework for added assurance against hacking, providing proof both the user and the device are who they claim to be.
Dr. Sader explains, “With BlkBag, we have been able to accomplish three major tasks: One - effectively organize instantaneous charge capture resulting in at least a 10% increase in revenue otherwise lost using archaic alternatives. Two - enhance patient care by efficient communication between all members of the treatment team. And three - process and analyze data to provide invaluable metrics utilized in statistical analytics.”
By prioritizing user experience and setting new security benchmarks, the BlkBag suite of mobile solutions paves the way for a future where healthcare organizations wholeheartedly embrace the technological advancements that revolutionized every other aspect of our lives.
Simplify workflows, boost efficiency
Find out how BlkBag can boost efficiency by simplifying workflows. Explore the platform and its benefits at BlkBag.app and contact BlkBag for a demo at support@blkbag.com.
