There was a lot of smiling around the Medivo offices on May 8 when the website iMedicalApps published its independent review of the Medivo patient and physician reporting programs, Patient Path and Medivo Monitor.The reviewer, Rebecca Coelius, a soon-to-be physician at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, called the Medivo offerings unique and “sophisticated,” and predicted continued success for Medivo.

“Their differentiation in patient engagement and design will make Medivo a winner, especially in primary care and those specialties heavy in chronic disease management,” she wrote.

To read the complete iMedicalApps review, click here.

For the record, iMedicalApps is an “independent online medical publication written by a team of physicians and medical students who provide commentary and reviews of mobile medical technology and applications,” as noted on its website. The site receives 400,000-plus views per month from the medical community.

“With a shortage of primary care physicians, it is vital that we find lean ways to scale quality health care across large patient populations,” Coelius wrote in her review. “Medivo is building a sophisticated patient panel management toolset that  is a significant step towards this goal.”

In comparing the Medivo programs with others, Coelius noted that Medivo’s “data display interface is significantly more intuitive and colorful than other common panel management products, not to mention EMRs.” She also commended the Medivo reports for making it easier for physicians to identify “which patients are not at goal values.”

Additionally, she gave Medivo “likes” for the robustness of its patient-engagement feature and its potential to address the symptom-tracking “workflow integration challenge” prevalent among health care professionals.

And, perhaps most importantly, she noted the Medivo offering is “free.”