About Us

Virtual Collaborative Network Our web-based platform connects the provider community via the Internet, providing a virtual collaborative network. Referring providers can access records, track progress and share information on their computers in real time. All of the collaborative communication is done in a secure 100% HIPAA compliant environment. Patient-centered Community Approach teamlinks gives you one centralized medical record for each patient where the patient is the center of the care. Providers can update the record and communicate it electronically to other providers. Each EMR is also an electronic Personal Health Record for the patient via www.ushealthrecord.com This creates a unique marketing opportunity for your community.

History

To put the philosophy of Interdisciplinary Dentofacial Therapy into a more systematic form of practice, Dr. Richard Roblee and his collaborative network began working with one comprehensive charting notebook for each patient in 1991. Countless man-hours were spent to identify and refine the needs of this common chart. Each patient had one common demographic form and health history with each provider’s notes and suggestions in the notebook. The notebook would travel to each provider that the patient saw, and the provider’s notes were placed into the chart for the next provider. While the concept worked well initially, eventually it became very difficult to keep track of, circulate and store all of the notebooks. There had to be a better way.

This led to the need for a different solution, and Dr Roblee began investigating existing Internet platforms for the development of a comprehensive internet accessible patient record system. Not finding an existing solution that met all of his needs, Dr. Roblee started to develop his own. With the technical help of his brother, Joseph Roblee, who was one of the leading Lotus Notes developers in the United States at that time, a prototype application was completed and in test stage by August 1997. This platform went into production in October 1997, and the company IDT Network.com was incorporated in Nevada in 1997.

In April 2000, IDT Network.com incorporated in Delaware under a new name, RxDDS, Inc., with a new co-founding partner and investor from Cleveland, Ohio. RxDDS tested a beta version of the collaborative platform for more than a year in over 20 dental offices and made several enhancements before officially entering the marketplace in July 2003. In keeping with the IDT ideal, the collaborative platform system was established around a centralized electronic patient record that would be accessible from the internet and allow healthcare providers to access patients’ charts, thus centralizing the storage of health information which could then be shared. This collaborative platform, named teamlinks, was not designed to offer an embedded practice management solution, but rather interface directly with existing business management systems that were more commonly used by the healthcare providers.

In 2004, Dr Scotty Bolding joined the founders, spearheading the development of a more functional clinical charting system and the development of a more comprehensive Electronic Medical Record interface for the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery specialty, which could work directly with a patient’s personal Health Record. The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Electronic Medical Record was first released to the market in September 2005, and it is the only electronic medical record created by an oral surgeon for use by oral surgeons. The brilliance of the teamlinks platform is that it was developed by actual healthcare providers and used extensively in their actual clinics. The company knows that teamlinks provides a superior service because Drs. Roblee and Bolding use it daily in their own practices.