Cisco's Electronic Medical Care

" The doctor is in okay if your company you've got employee health care costs you know exactly what I'm talking about corporations are desperately. Trying to keep health care costs under control of one company has decided you know what let's use our own technology to take the lead. Here to speak at Fox Business explicitly is that doctor is making it all happened here at Cisco's fifth. Hi -- director of corporate medical programs -- Cisco Systems good to see your doctor thank you for being here if you well. I was looking into Cisco's numbers your annual medical claims for all of your employees it's staggering numbers have been like 200 million dollars. It discovered that 35%. 72 million. What we're kind of associated with preventable planes that you took the bull by the markets that let's figure out a better way what is that matter involving systems products where."

" Focusing on prevention right now and one of the things that we're actually doing is they. Proof of concept health center here in San birthday we just open the life connection -- manner that health center is really focused on. Using an integrated approach it's too. Health care primary pay primary care patients that are medical home. Driven by technology with technology really been able our -- group out now -- for Cisco employees -- conflict they don't ever basic checkups what happens yes so it's up full service that are primary care with acupuncture chiropractic. Physical therapy health coaches. But on -- that we have a paperless environment electronic medical records personal health record. Trying to enable transparency. Between the patient and the that this at. And also improve the quality puppet for me a number of big corporations provide on site employee health care. How is it that you're doing it differently we're taking a step further what we are doing it differently and in three major ways one we're doing full. Suite of services. Integrated in a primary care home model. Currently we're using technology so we having paperless environments. No -- sitting there in the doctor's office fill that out yet paying out that form we can check paycheck and two point five minute and have them in the camera. On top of that we're using electronic medical record freezing secure messaging so patients can talk to their position even when they're not in the clinic. -- And wiped out with a doctor Healy said that Russia through these days I refuse to do that. Are you making sure that a patient really feels like he or she is hurt. Listen to buy -- doctor -- that he can't put a dollar figure on the doctor Wilshire and at this and see in the whole administrative area. Is offset by the fact that our office -- through either 25 minutes or fifteen minutes. So now I don't yeah -- not -- finally get to spend quality time with your position. I can just -- other companies following nearly keep us posted doctor thank you very much. Doctor -- Bible of Cisco Systems is the director of corporate medical programs coming up with. Ideas on how to catch diseases earlier on site where people work so that they don't have more expensive health care later on down the line what a concept right. The closing bell is ringing."