"MediSprout App Offers Timely Care Without Waiting Room Angst" - Ryan Deffenbaugh

About 27 percent of a physician’s time goes to actual patients; the rest is spent doing paperwork, calling insurance companies and other administrative tasks. That level of paperwork can leave a doctor feeling burnt out. To solve this, Samant Virk founded MediSprout. MediSprout’s corner of the market could come from its ability to appeal directly to doctors. Rather than having a large group of doctors ready to see patients on demand, MediSprout’s focus is on providing a virtual option for patients to reach their doctors, and vice versa. The ability to connect patients directly to their doctor was important to Virk, who described seeing a growing world of “outsourced medicine.” MediSprout is already working with Mount Sinai Hospital. The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at Mount Sinai, uses MediSprout’s app to help track follow up care for complex IBD patients. The app has been used about 700 times since summer 2016 by the center, the hospital estimated in a case study. The hospital believes that interacting with patients through the app could cut down on unnecessary hospital visits.

- The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital

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