DrConnected continues to expand to meet the demands of Healthcare’s networking needs.

Irvine, CA (Prestance Inc.) July 2, 2009—Prestance Inc announces the release of the latest alpha version of DrConnected web application.

This changing economy is starting to affect everyone, even the healthcare industry. Physicians have just as many concerns as any other business owner. They need to expand through successful networking, strong hospital affiliations and referrals.

DrConnected is a social network application designed to help physicians connect with one another and gain exposure for their practice. Subscription to DrConnected is free and to begin, the user builds a Public Profile that displays the physician’s name, specialization, name of practice, location, profile photo, organizations and hospital affiliations. Each Public Profile is crawled by major search engines and can be viewed by those conducting the search. In addition, DrConnected alpha v.1.0 has the following features incorporated: Network List of Colleagues, Invite a Colleague, Blog, and Got Feedback Button.

Prestance Inc is currently working on implementing the following features: Applications for BlackBerry and iPhone, Advanced Search Engine Optimization for Public Profiles, and Direct Search on the DrConnected homepage to allow patients to find physicians by name, location, and/or specialization. All of these features are scheduled to be deployed progressively this summer.

For additional information on DrConnected, contact J. Renee Rose or visit www.drconnected.com. Prestance Inc’s goals for DrConnected are to optimize physicians’ exposure, maximize physician productivity, help patients obtain detailed information on physicians and health practices, and to increase professional and patient referrals for physicians and specialists.

About Prestance Inc:
Prestance Inc is a visual communication firm committed to providing innovative and customized solutions to its clients. DrConnected is just another example of Prestance Inc’s research and development expertise that anticipates and exceeds the needs of market demand. Prestance, Inc also provides customized web development applications and websites, along with highly advanced SEO solutions. Simple, clean, useful: Prestance.

“Prestance was instrumental in the development of our website, their insight was invaluable along with their market research to ensure that we stood out from other medical websites currently published,” said Doctor Gleeson, medical director of Laguna Niguel Medical Center. “The working relationship was ideal for my busy practice schedule; they always worked around my needs and always were ahead of schedule with their different phases of development. They are more than my website designers; they are my website PARTNERS and I highly recommend them to all businesses.”

Contact:
Prestance, Inc.
P.O. Box 60427
Irvine, CA 92602
1-888-293-5629 Ext: 803
J. Renee Rose, Executive Assistant

http://www.prestanceinc.com
http://www.drconnected.com

What is it?

Doctors Connected (DrConnected) is a Social Network specifically developed for Doctors, Physicians, Allied Health. Doctors can easily connect with their Colleagues nationwide at no cost!

Introduction
We officially launched the alpha version of this powerful web-application a few months ago. We would like to introduce to you some of the great features that were implemented during November.

#1 DrConnected Blog
DrConnected blog was launched around the same time we release the first alpha version of our innovative social network for doctors.

#2 Recommendation Process
Implementation of a powerful Recommendation System in the Search Engine (if variable searched aren’t found). Basically what that means is, if you do not successfully find one of your colleagues on DrConnected’s system, you can easily send an invitation by email.

#3 Forgot your Password?
We also implemented the “Forgot your password” option to enable users to retrieve a new password.

#4 Strong Security Improvement
One of our main priorities is to always optimize our code to provide you and us more security. Major Security improvement was done when we released our version 0.6.4 alpha.

#5 Intuitive User-Interface
We proudly published the new branding of DrConnected a few days ago. It took us months (to say the least) to work on the branding of DrConnected. We created and worked on different styles, colors, and typography in trying to produce to most “easy to use” social network web-application on the market. As a visual communication firm, our goal is to provide physicians, with an intuitive application.

#6 Harmonized CSS
I am sure as a web developer you were -at least once- rushed to publish an application with unharmonized CSS, because of a time constraint or some other reason. It doesn’t impact user experience on your site at all, but it’s the kind of (silly) unfinished task that stays in the back of your mind haunting you. The solution to remedy this problem is as simple as erasing duplicates in your css file. But your strong web developer’s consciousness keeps bugging you until you finally harmonize the CSS of your application. No matter how low the impact is for the end-user, it’s just feels like cleaning your office or taking care of errants. Just great

#7 Got Feedback Option
Nothing is more important to us, than the user experience of our application. This is why we added the “Got Feedback” Button that you will find on the bottom right side of your screen, when you log in to your DrConnected Account. We already received some interesting feedback, and are working on implementing some new features.

We will provide you a calendar of features sometime this week, to be implemented for December. Stay Tuned.