Young entrepreneur launches MedRegis

Medical staff in Barbados now have access to a new and innovative electronic health records management system called “MedRegis EHR”, which will see them delivering health care in a more efficient manner, by moving away from a paper-based system in favour of this electronic system.

MedRegis EHR (Electronic Health Record) is a start-up focused on health technology, which has been created by young entrepreneur Dale Trotman, a graduate of the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth.

Speaking during the official launch of the product MedRegis in the Minister’s Conference Room, at Sky Mall, Haggatt Hall, St. Michael, on Friday, Trotman, noted that the journey all began when he recognised a need within the Caribbean’s health care sector and sought to address that need.

“Our aim is to eradicate the widespread use of paper within ambulatory care in the Caribbean. Doctors, nurses and front desk staff want to integrate technology into their professional lives, the same way it is integrated into their personal lives. MedRegis will achieve this, by stream lining workflow and usability, in a way paper cannot,” Trotman remarked.

Stressing that his solution will fast track the appointment process, allowing doctors to deliver prescriptions electronically and to also do their billing processes in this manner, he also noted that the MedRegis application will also provide medical staff with a more efficient way of storing patient’s health records, including X-ray images.

“I know that I have an application that will bring efficiency into the medical sector, not just for Barbados, but the Caribbean and eventually beyond.

“My aim with MedRegis is not about becoming a billionaire or a millionaire. My aim with MedRegis is to create an application that becomes the pioneering start-up in health technology in the Caribbean. A company that moves health care in the Caribbean, into the 21st century. I want MedRegis to be seen as the “Apple” of health care and my aim is to be the “Steve Jobs” of health care,” Trotman asserted.

Trotman, who has won the Social Innovation Award at TIC Americas, has also been a delegate at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Silicon Valley in the USA, where he got the opportunity to meet with a leading US developer who works with Google, who gave freely of his time to point him in the right direction, in terms of the development of MedRegis.

Trotman also credits his mother Jennifer Trotman who started him off with some of the funding for the business, the YES Programme which gave him the additional funding needed, two mentors he met via LinkedIn, and strategic implementing partners Dr. Brian Charles from the Coverley and Sandy Crest Medical Centres and Dr. Kathy Ellis of Medical Associates Family Clinic, for assisting him in bringing the product to fruition.