Billing Cam is a time tracking device and app that basically married video with billing time or billable hours. The way it works is very simple. When the user is billing the boss or client the device is recording a video that tracks the worker’s time spent on a specific project. When the worker stops or takes a break, the device is simply stopped. When the worker resumes, the device is started again. The time for each video segment is then totaled through the software to give an exact time the worker did, in fact, work. Billing per hour is then factored in giving the client an exact accounting of his or her services.
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What is Billing Cam?
This enhanced video tracking system and a method called the “Billingcam” is patented with 18 claims with PLC filed for worldwide protection as well as additional patents further protecting its proprietary rights. It’s Trademark pending as well.
The old-time clock does not tell if a worker is actually working. The same goes for biometric time clocks that take a fingerprint to clock in at work. Clocking in at a job and actually working are two completely different things.
About the Inventor
The patent developer Philip Markowitz has a background in business, commercial real estate as well as a gourmet chef on the side. He is an avid animal lover with his German Shepard never far from his side. He resides in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Markowitz is seeking strategic partner(s) to either license the product by country or possibly produce the product and develop the app. Companies that would be a great fit are payroll/HR corporations, body cam companies, large medical companies, fortune 500 insurance companies, and camera manufacturing companies.
Mr. Markowitz’s inspiration for the need for such a device came from years of outrageous legal bills he received related to business where you had no way to prove or disprove a legal bill for the time the attorney billed for. You had to just trust them! “NO WAY”!! Mr. Markowitz says.
“There has to be a better way.” Mr. Markowitz put his money where his mouth was and hence the Billingcam was invented and patented with 18 claims with additional patents pending to expand the protection and applications.
Now, while no attorney would likely voluntarily use such a device, this was just his inspiration for making this device, a method for billing. The only way attorneys would use this device is that there are forced to do so by their biggest clients such as large insurance companies that can dictate such practices if they want their business and then likely it would catch on to other lawyers or law firms as the public becomes informed about just such a way of billing. Many lawyers then would boast they use such a device to show they are transparent in billing and honest and then the Billingcam becomes a marketing device.
Imagine that?
Privacy issues for legal and medical are quite simple to address. The video time tracking is not for anyone to view without the consent of the client. In medical applications nearly all elderly have to agree to be billed with the Billingcam and this decision is usually made by the elderly patient’s power of attorney who would be protecting their loved ones by agreeing to this.
In legal circles, the attorney-client privilege is not waived as the billing only goes to the client or cloud storage and not any third parties without the client’s knowledge or consent. If a client doesn’t want to be on Billingcam they can simply go with another healthcare provider or legal provider that bills the old fashion way in that you just have to trust them.
Bathroom breaks for in house home health care can be addressed many ways from not turning the Billingcam off during their visit and either do not use their patient’s bathroom as they work short hours or if they must use the bathroom they can aim the Billingcam away from any view of their private areas. These rules would be sorted out by the employer one way or another.