Hospital introduces comprehensive health services mobile app

St. Luke’s Medical Center recently unveiled its MedConnect, an easy-to-use application for smart phones and tablet devices to connect people to the hospital’s services.

Interviewed at the launch last Jan. 27 at St. Luke’s Medical Center-Quezon City, senior vice president and head of marketing Marilen Tronqued-Lagniton said MedConnect is the first fully functional and very comprehensive health services app in the country, “bringing St. Luke’s Medical Center closer to its patients and to the public.”

Lagniton said that with this mobile app and an Internet connection through WiFi or network carrier, one can have access to St. Luke’s Medical Center’s directory of doctors and book for appointments, check on examination or confinement bills, learn more about its Wellness Center packages and contact its emergency care.

MedConnect will also make the hospital’s e-health suite more accessible to patients and their loved ones, Lagniton added. “They can just look for the [medical] procedure and pay for it online. And you also don’t have to go St. Luke’s to get the results; you can download it online through the app, which you can show to your doctor.”

Realizing that mobile apps are the way to go, Lagniton said they at St. Luke’s Medical Center were inspired on how apps have made people more connected to their needs, like when looking for a good place to eat or check out for an item to shop. “Why not an app to make it easier to look for a doctor or to get a procedure and then pay for it?” Lagniton said.

To download the St. Luke’s MedConnect App, one can check it out at the Apple Appstore or Google play and search for St. Luke’s Medical Center and follow the installation instructions. Print and online ads will also have a QR code which connects to the St. Luke’s MedConnect webpage directly.