MeisterMed was created in March 2001 by Dr. Andrew Schechtman, M.D., a board-certified family physician. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley and medical school at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He trained in Family Practice at Merrithew Memorial Hospital (now called Contra Costa Regional Medical Center) a family practice-run, county hospital in Martinez, California.

Very accurate. In creating a MeisterMed application the author meticulously checks references and reviews the application thoroughly before it is published. In addition, we actively encourage our users to submit any mistakes they may find. Our network of thousands of users and their feedback is one excellent way of maintaining quality. With the release of PapMeister in March 2004, MeisterMed instituted a peer-review process as a further step to ensure clinical accuracy.

MeisterMed was created when MeisterMed's owner simultaneously discovered how handy PDA's were and how little medical reference information was readily available. He started by creating CodeMeister when he saw how limited the coding accuracy was when he chose a code from a one page "superbill" and it was then translated by a medical assistant with little coding knowledge.

No, you won't. We don't share or sell your e-mail address. You will only receive an occasional e-mail from us here at MeisterMed to announce a new release or an update. Our policy is to limit e-mail mailings to a maximum of once a month. You can review our full privacy policy here. If you have registered and don't wish to receive any e-mail from MeisterMed, you can send us an "unsubscribe" e-mail by clicking here.

MeisterMed applications are not stand-alone programs. They are documents or e-books written for viewing in the iSilo document reader. The term "document," however, fails to adequately represent the power and functionality of a complex and thoroughly hyperlinked reference. "Application" is a general term that means "software that executes a specific task" and it applies well to MeisterMed's e-books. Purists may disagree.