Mobile app cuts wait times in doctor offices

Concierge Key Health of Newport Beach, Calif., has introduced a mobile app that can dramatically decrease time spent in Doctor’s office waiting rooms.Concierge Key Health of Newport Beach, Calif., has introduced a mobile app that can dramatically decrease time spent in Doctor’s office waiting rooms.

The app allows patients to block a two-hour window with participating doctors. It also allows patients to forward their health care profiles to doctors’ offices.

A Toms River-based ophthalmologist Lakhani Vipul, who is associated with Ocean Medical Center, and plastic surgeon David Abramson, have signed up for the service. A company spokesperson said Concierge Key Health is working on signing up several more medical offices in the state in the coming months.