About Us
We grew out of an Academic Bariatric Practice
Dr. Matthew Weiner realized that his practice was losing patients because he was
not efficiently tracking his patient's pre-operative workup. He first turned to
existing software packages to serve his needs, but found them expensive,
difficult to use and unable to satisfy his practice's needs.
In order to improve his coordinator's ability to obtain insurance authorization,
he developed a simple website to accomplish this task. The result was a
doubling of his case volume and he realized that he could expand his workup
tracker to all aspects of his patient workflow. The result was the BPM, the
only bariatric patient tracking software that grew out of a practice, rather
than being developed by a software company, trying to interpret the needs of the
bariatric surgeon.
Previous Projects
Dr. Weiner is an accomplished computer programmer, in addition to being a busy
bariatric surgeon. In his residency, Dr. Weiner developed the Surgical
Interactive Multimedia Modules (SIMMS) which were eventually adopted by the
American College of Surgeons to become the
WISE-MD project
Dr. Weiner also developed LapSearch, a
search engine for Laparoscopic devices. This search engine also offers a video
library and is used by over 2000 surgeons every month.
About Dr. Weiner
Dr. Weiner is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Wayne State
University School of Medicine. His clinical interests are obviously bariatriac
surgery, however, he also is interested in complex hernias and foregut surgery.
His research interests are new technology development, specifically in the field
of robotics. He is also well published in the field of surgical education, with
a special interest in the evaluation of learning curves on laparoscopic
simulators.
About our Practice
Our practice is based out of the Wayne State University School of Medicine
Department of Surgery and currently consists of four bariatric surgeons. We run
an almost completely digital practice, will all clinic visits, operations and
workup evaluations tracked in the BPM.
The BPM was developed to streamline our practice and increase our ability to
generate and follow patients efficiently. Our first and primary goal of the
software was to save the coordinators and surgeons time. Rather than sorting
through paper charts, or dictating letters or operative reports, our staff
spends time interacting with the patients, either on the phone or in person.