{"id":2243,"date":"2021-03-01T20:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:16:26","slug":"seriousmd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/seriousmd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Year with SeriousMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, we set out with a vision to <a href=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/seriousmd-apple-app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve healthcare in the Philippines<\/a>. We launched a lone iPad (only) app to the Apple App Store and just got started there.<\/p>\n<p>We had a patient list. We barely had notes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-141 \" src=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SeriousMD-Doctors-Take-Notes-and-Keep-Track-of-Patients-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SeriousMD Doctors - Practice &amp; Clinic Management System, Schedul\" width=\"203\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SeriousMD-Doctors-Take-Notes-and-Keep-Track-of-Patients-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SeriousMD-Doctors-Take-Notes-and-Keep-Track-of-Patients-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SeriousMD-Doctors-Take-Notes-and-Keep-Track-of-Patients.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awww&#8230; Version 1.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t even have a proper prescription.<\/p>\n<p>We did have a queue list. &#x1f602;<\/p>\n<p>Yup, you can say that it was literally a glorified patient list back then, but it was still the best glorified patient list at that time.<\/p>\n<p>But things quickly changed over the next few months. We busted out update after update.<br \/>\nLearned from our mistakes and listened to feedback. We just kept grinding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over the course of the next months and years, we were told that we weren&#8217;t good enough. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They said that serving and working with doctors will be a dead end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, we view things a little bit differently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today marks the start of the 6th year, officially, for SeriousMD. &#x1f382;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still alive, grinding, releasing updates every single day (though you won&#8217;t notice many of them on the front end) and the team has also been relentlessly churning out and planning out enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d also like to add that I couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the SeriousMD team for stepping up during the start of the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had the whole 2020 planned out since December 2019, only to be thrown out the window in a span of 2 days &#x1f610; and replaced with a completely new roadmap to be able to help our existing users. Those that have trusted and worked with us since even before this pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p>I still remember every second of those 6 weeks of non-stop, practically 24\/7 grind to churn out <a href=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/blog\/covid-software-doctors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">version 2<\/a>, online booking, online billing, virtual consults, and many more. That&#8217;s excluding the webinars, demos and working with issues that came after that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a wild ride to say the least and this is shaping up to be another crazy year. We&#8217;ve release a new call update, iOS features, Mac M1 support, <a href=\"https:\/\/nowserving.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NowServing<\/a> improvements for the site and the app and tons more in the works for <strong>EMR<\/strong> <strong>improvements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk about some of the upcoming plans in the March and April newsletters, so if you haven&#8217;t, be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for your free SeriousMD account<\/a>. &#x1f609;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like I&#8217;ve said before, we&#8217;d like to look at our small company like the little train, that could.<br \/>\nWe do hope you can continue to support SeriousMD and of course, please <a href=\"https:\/\/seriousmd.com\/doctor\/app\/invite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tell your peers about us<\/a>. &#x1f602; (Pretty please?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you so much for all your support. It kept us going even when we were running on fumes.\u00a0<\/strong><em>There&#8217;s no emoji that can show how much we appreciate it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to better years, bigger challenges and of course, better healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Be healthy, stay safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, we set out with a vision to improve healthcare in the Philippines. We launched a lone iPad (only) app to the Apple App Store and just got started there. We had a patient list. We barely had notes. We didn&#8217;t even have a proper prescription. 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