Since it was founded in 1988 Cadusys doctors answering service has been serving the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area and is used by over 500 physicians and healthcare professionals. The doctors answering service provided by Cadusys is now available nationwide for any physician's office with a telephone. The goal of Cadusys doctors answering service is to ensure that treating physicians receive quick and complete information to enable critical and precise medical decision making. Physicians and healthcare workers who have been using the doctors answering service provided by Cadusy have stated that they cannot imagine having to manage their normal busy days without the service. The doctors answering service provided by Cadusys eliminates the more negative aspects of an operator-assisted answering service and Cadusys' goal has always been to eradicate wasted time spent on hold and unprofessional behavior which could badly reflect on the physician. The doctors answering service also eliminates the ability to handle only one call at a time and inappropriate medical decision making by non-qualified personnel. Patients prefer the Cadusys doctors answering service with the medical voice mail system because they feel that they are leaving their confidential medical details directly with their treating physician. In general, the Cadusys doctors answering service is about one third to one half of the cost of operator-assisted answering services. An additional benefit of the doctors answering service is the permitting of physicians to share information at their mutual convenience with a non-urgent status that does not page and can be set to notify at a future date and time. Ideal for sharing patient care information with practice associates the Cadusys doctors answering service enhances the flow of information between consultant and referring physicians. The Cadusys doctors answering service voice mail platform was designed specifically for use in the medical profession. The doctors answering service employs several unique features that are essential for normal medical communications, such as different message notification available to pager, land-based or cell phone and total programmability to accommodate a variety of different schedules or cross covering scenarios. Cadusys doctors answering service is HIPAA compliant and the user controls the password and the data is inaccessible without it. Since every practice is different the owner and founder of Cadusys doctors answering service, Dr. Dempsey, will work closely with the client to customize a service plan that yields the most value for the practice. Cadusys Dr. Dempsey will also set up the doctors answering service to send message notification to the physician's personal pager, home phone and cell phone. All of the programming of the Cadusys doctors answering service is preset and the user is able to select from a set of pre-defined conditions, such as Answer Modes. All user interfacing of the doctors answering service is performed by a touch-tone telephone and the ISDN lines are extremely quick. The system has menus that are interruptible at any given time in the message review process and housekeeping is transparent and happens daily without disturbing the normal operation. .