The Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation has collaborated with Ringful Health and, Dr. Vishal Kancherla of the North Austin Medical Center to develop a pain care mobile application that helps chronic pain patients to better manage their symptoms, medications, and better communicate with their physicians in hopes of properly treating patients and reducing the risk of medical errors.

The Foundation and Ringful Health are currently working to develop two mobile healthcare applications (apps) for the smart phone, particularly the iPhone and the iPad. The apps will allow you to electronically record medication information and access our information in the Batz Guide for bedside advocacy. By using these apps, everyone will be able to readily access the information needed to work with hospital staff to protect you or your family members against preventable medical errors. The availability of the apps on the iTunes store will give much greater access to our tools and resources.

Go to www.rinfgul.com or the itunes store and check out the Pain Care App and some others they have already developed. Some of their most popular apps are the Pollen Journal and Asthma Journal. They have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times. Dr. Michael Yuan, the CEO, is a recognized expert in mobile and Internet software development. He published 5 books and over 40 articles in this area. His book "Enterprise J2ME", originally published by Prentice Hall in 2003, is considered a pioneering work on end-to-end enterprise mobile computing, and it is a best seller on Amazon.com after being adapted as textbook in several universities. With his vast experience in mobile healthcare application technology we are very excited to have them as our partners.

We will let you know as soon as they are available for download at the iTunes store!