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Clinical Tools from SwiftPractice Medical Software

2011-01-21T00:38:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone,
To every healthcare practitioner who has had the need to do a quick clinical calculation or conversion right in the face of 'work', these need little introduction.
With the SwiftPractice clinical tools, medical conversion is smooth sailing. With the full software suite, most of these facilities are, in fact, integrated seamlessly with other features of the medical information system. However, as a public service, a rich sample has been provided on the GottKann website for your free use! Among other things, you can:

Calculate estimated date of delivery (EDD) and estimated gestational age (EGA), given the last menstrual period (LMP)
Calculate estimated date of delivery (EDD), estimated gestational age (EGA) and projected last menstrual period (LMP), given the an ultrasound gestational age and the date the exam was done
Calculate estimated gestational age (EGA) and projected last menstrual period (LMP), given an ultrasound EDD
Interconvert values among many units (such as cm, metres, pounds, ounces, stones, feet, celcius, fahrenheit, etc etc)
Utilize our Digital Stopwatch and Countdown tools
Quickly obtain body mass index (BMI) by entering the weight and height parameters

See the Useful Clinical Resources section for these and other goodies!

SwiftPractice, the Medical Software for Nigeria

2011-01-02T07:27:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, SwiftPractice is finally here! Here is an excerpt from an introductory document from the GottKann team...

I write to introduce SwiftPractice® , a comprehensive medical information system (MIS) from GottKann Multimedia. If you have ever dreamt of a paperless system for your practice, SwiftPractice is here to provide a robust framework for you to achieve and indeed exceed your goals!
Let me broadly highlight just a few of the strengths of this MIS, which your hospital should expect to soon be harnessing:

• User-friendly, intuitive tools as the program uses familiar web interface

• Detailed client bio-data and clinical records (including outpatient and inpatient data), with easily interlinked document management system, such that pre-MIS as well as any on-coming paper documents and other multimedia files can be auto-stored, linked to current electronic medical records (EMR) and easily retrieved for any particular client

• Detailed retainer records, with provisions to store specific information, enabling automated enrollee validation, retainer-based transaction auditing, claims computing and other correspondences.

• Facilities for automated communication by email with clients and retaining institutions

• Streamlining the Hospital’s daily tasks by inspiring reviews and refinement of workflow and business rules

• Portraying the Hospital in positive light among clients, retainers, contractors and even competing establishments

• Eventual great savings in cost of stationery and personnel

• Complete accountability for clinical decisions and tasks as well as financial responsibilities; Management can get whatever information it requires “at the click of a button”

• Completely customized solution, with limitless opportunity for adapting to YOUR HOSPITAL’s unique needs and circumstances

• Ability to integrate with your existing or anticipated website for purposes such as synchronizing appointment requests coming from the internet

• Ability to enforce any privacy and security policies outlined by the establishment, relating to both Hospital-side and client-side confidential information

• Countless utility tools, including a chat facility, internal memos, clinical calculators and converters, appointments, calendars, sundry graphs and charts and table reports for monitoring and evaluation, et cetera, et cetera

• Specifically Nigerian software thoroughly designed for Nigerian practices, from within Nigeria

• Specifically hospital-based software thoroughly designed with extensive experience within the hospital system…

The foregoing list is far from exhaustive, as the SwiftPractice® MIS features countless other facilities to take care of much cherished information archiving, organization, presentation and analysis, while you concentrate on what’s really important - your business.

For a free demonstration session, or just further enquiry, please use any of these options:

Tel: +234-806-151-4838, +234- 805-746-9809, +234-704-233-3416

Email: swiftpractice@gmail.com

Or visit: http://www.gottkann.com

Alas, we are not yet there!

2007-05-12T05:18:00.001-07:00

I guess my first imperative should be to offer my kudos to you guys in charge of stuff on this site, for until quite recently, it wouldn't even have been possible for someone like me to have the opportunity of making this sort of statement through this sort of medium. So, yes, we've come a long way on the internet bushpath!

The problem is: there's so much more possibility! At the end of the path, we must find that crucial exit into the main road, then thereafter into the highway, and then... the superhighway! It is much more painful when considered against the reality that this country is awesomely blessed with human and material resources (kindly permit my reuse of that overused cliche!). But that's simply the ironical truth!

Powers-that-be, please do something! And I mean Powers-that-be at N.I.G.
as much as I mean Powers-that-be in Nigeria. We just have to do something, and then another, and then another... to improve internet penetration in our country. Obviously, to make any great impact, the problem of pervading poverty down to the grassroots has to be addressed, and then literacy, and then 'NEPA' (or whatever alias or 'baptismal name' it may choose to acquire tomorrow), and that links up altogether with the issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, to which our country affirms subscription. How I wish (and indeed have been praying) that the good Lord, one day, would bless this land with competent, honest, and passionate leaders! Someone should ask questions such as how did certain nations like India 'suddenly' shoot to the enviable positions they now occupy in terms of holistic IT muscle?

Yes, many Naija websites are now springing up by the day. But by the way, I perceive that most of us may fall for this smokescreen: that www.lagbaja.com (and pleeeaaase, I am NOT referring to the Masked One's homepage, to which, by the way, I was unable to log on several times this weekend, ?reason!) means that Messrs Lagbaja and Co are now properly represented online. Yet this is too often very far from, truth. Well, while I admit that the mere collection of web pages sharing a common url may suffice for the definition of a website, such a 'site' is certainly grossly insufficient for any corporate or quasi-corporate entity worth its mettle. Along this line, what really matters to you and me is that we can, while browsing the Lagbaja and Co site, identify areas where business-realated and other interactions can potentially take place, refine this information through search, filter and other functions, and then be able to carry out as much of the eventual actual transaction as much as possible, still within the convenience (if that's the case) of the internet medium. I guess this is the sort of website the pros actually refer to as a web application. It does not speak well that the Nigerian webspace is sparsely cluttered with too many dull, static and largely ineffective websites, often with out of date information and often in 'down time'. Super-companies and government departments are not even exempted! Are you expecting me to name names?

Anyhow, whatever the obstacles are (and they are enormous, I know), they must be dismantled deliberately and steadily. The stakeholders must redouble efforts at entrenching the internet culture (backed of course by appropriate and sustainable technology and infrastructure) in the system. Anyone who cannot see that tomorrow is going to run online, needs 'glasses', if not 'eye surgery'! If Nigerians and their leaders allow the country to be left behind, it won't be the first time we're getting the short end of the stick from those to whom we have 'entrusted' our leadership! And we'd probably keep turning the other cheek, wouldn't we?

Dr Ifedi Okonkwo

Excerpts from this article appears on the Forum pages of the Nigeria Internet Group. Click this link to visit the site: http://www.nig.org.ng/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=96&PN=1&TPN=1

The Greatest Man in History

2007-04-13T12:32:00.001-07:00

I've just been relishing the moment of my first-ever blog post. And now that we have just marked the most significant event to have taken place in history, may I take a moment to share this little verse, part of an email kindly shared with me, courtesy of my niece, Chioma.

Reads in part…

The Greatest Man in History

Jesus had no servants, yet they called Him Master.

Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher.

Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer.

He had no army, yet kings feared Him.

He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world.

He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.

He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today.

Halleluyah! Christ is risen!

Let the whole world hear! Begin with the next fellow!

Till soon!

Ifedi.

Nigerian Sheet Music Is Coming To The Web!

2007-04-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

I wonder if you could possibly feel the excitement all over me as I post my very first piece of writing to the "almighty" world-wide web! Hear how it sounds? Contained herein is some sort of a vague implication that I have as they say "got the world in my fingers". At the risk of boring or exasperating the cynics out there (hope you aren't one!), be informed of this: I fully intend, hereafter, to fully take possesion of the world "in my fingers". You just watch out.
A word about the title of this weblog...

GottKann Music is a little effort at compensating for a very serious deficiency in the system. We fully intend to take on the responsibility of disseminating information about, and in fact providing to the people of the world, actual music from our part of the African continent. Actual downloadable formats should shortly become available: formatted sheet music (especially in pdf format), midi files and MP3 or WMA, and many more.

I should be further expanding on this project soon, in a subsequent log. I can only promise you a refreshingly different mix of resources, just you keep coming back. And if in the meantime you should need any specific piece of information become it becomes expressly available on the site, kindly feel free to contact me directly by mail: gottkann@gmail.com.

See you soon!

On behalf of the GottKann Team,

Ifedi and Kenny.