HealthCodex is a company dedicated to making healthcare delivery more efficient and effective. Our mission is to automate healthcare management using technology.

Our History

Dr. Huber has previous experience as a successful medical IT entrepreneur. She authored a medical knowledge base in the late 1990s. After selling the knowledge base to McKessonHBOC she was invited to continue working on their behalf as an Enterprise Product Consultant.

In 2000, Dr. Huber took the opportunity to become Medical Director of Healinx, a dot-com startup web-based online physician consulting service. When Healinx fell victim to the dot-com bubble, she found herself with time to reflect on her recent experiences and write out her early ideas. She came to the conclusion that there was a better way to use the web to manage chronic disease.

Her ideas for how a new level of medical IT could make case management more cost efficient and more medically effective solidified and became the conceptual basis for the HealthCodex system.

Dr. Huber founded HealthCodex because she saw a need to make treatment of chronic diseases more efficient and effective. She wanted to apply technology to the management of chronic diseases. She maintains a blog on the HealthCodex site where she talks about medical issues.

For the technological solution, Dr. Huber turned to Dr. Richard Cross, a research scientist with extensive experience with computer security and website development. Dr. Cross recruited a team of scientists and business professionals who have brought Dr. Huber's idea to life.

About Our Name: HealthCodex

A codex is a book made from bound parchment. Because such books were at one time rare, they connotated authority -- usually the book would be a compendium of law or scripture, although sometimes a codex would contain a collection of instructions for preparing a drug or treatment. HealthCodex is a reference point for patients who wish to better manage their health. With HealthCodex, a Medical Director can enter an authoritative set of instructions for evidence-based healthcare management. The system will send out reminders and facilitate patient communication so a patient can follow a known pathway to better health.

Products

The Family Health Planner is a site that allows the family health manager to track her family's appointments and organize her notes about those appointments. The site allows her to setup reminders based on the age and gender of each family member. Dr Janet Huber created these reminders from evidence-based treatment recommendations.

Our Case Management system facilitates secure communication between patients, care providers and case managers. We implement evidence-based chronic disease treatment programs by sending automatic reminders and tracking patient progress. Patients can easily alert their case manager if they have a question or an issue with their treatment. With our system, case managers spend time on problems, not routine drudgery.