CINCINNATI, Ohio — Doctor Kenneth Hill has strong ties to the Buckeye State.
"I grew up in southeast Ohio and Jackson County, Oak Hill. My mom now lives in Columbus, Ohio. My wife did her residency in Cincinnati at Cincinnati Children’s, so we have quite a, quite a few ties to Ohio,” said Dr. Hill, MD, FAANS.
The neurosurgeon now lives in Jacksonville, Florida, but hopes to introduce the new app in his home state. He and his wife created it to help healthcare workers and patients.
- Dr. Kenneth Hill and his wife developed the MĪNA app
- The goal of the app is to make accessing someone’s medical history quicker and easier, while also limiting face-to-face contact
- They're allowing healthcare providers to use the app free for six months
"it really was just my wife and I sitting around the table many moons ago saying, ‘what is the inefficiencies?'" "It really was the fact that if somebody comes to see me and they show up on time but don’t have their papers filled out, I will still see them, but then that puts them, you know, 20-35, maybe even 45 minutes behind," Hill said.
The smartphone app converts the person’s health history into a QR code so the healthcare provider can simply scan it, and transfer the paperwork.
"The standard questions associated with COVID-19 are in the app already. That’s just the way that we created it before. But now, because that process goes down to 15 seconds, that face to face contact time goes down,” said Hill.
The app allows you to put family members and even pets on the app.
Dr. Hill says it’s currently being reviewed by the Ohio COVID-19 Task Force and he's in talks with a healthcare provider in Ohio. He's hoping the state and healthcare providers share the same vision.
"We’re trying to give it away. This is a solution that is not out there and it is a way to decrease that risk of transmitting coronavirus. And at this point in time, we just want to help. We just want people to use it."