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Too much inertia on the provider side for this to catch on and reach critical mass - many septuagenarian sole practitioners out there using paper diaries / file

Too much inertia on the provider side for this to catch on and reach critical mass - many septuagenarian sole practitioners out there using paper diaries / files, and larger organisations with some monstrosity written in COBOL (or MUMPS?) that will never change to accommodate this. I'd suggest something much more low-tech - a website where you can punch in all your details - insurance, allergies, medical history, etc, etc... and then you can print it out (or a subset of it, for different kinds of providers) or generate a PDF that they can copy & paste into their horrible legacy system (an improvement on retyping), or, for those truly at the cutting edge - the kind of electronic transmission you speak of.

dvdhnt 10y ago
I'm probably bias because I've lived in two areas now where healthcare is one of a few, if not the, major industry in the area. They're always trying out new apps and services here. I am on board with what you're saying; an escape hatch for non- or semi-adopters. Obviously, printing is a way to go, so maybe on the mobile app, the ability to check each piece of information required then export/email to your preferred destination. It'd also be interesting to look to make money on conversion i/e replacing, or integrating with, the outdated monsters you're talking about. Maybe we're not even talking about healthcare anymore, maybe just the ability to piece together PII (personally identifiable information) and deliver it to X. >>>> on another note This goes into a topic I've seen posts on recently, and something of interest to me, personal indexing; a better way to throw blobs against the wall and have it indexed for me, leading to a personal Google. I mean, that's already coming, really, between Facebook and Google (especially Google Photos) but currently I see nothing about piecing together information I'd like to share on a professional level.
- tacostakohashi 10y ago
  Hmm, Google Drive does a reasonable job of that. It indexes everything (including OCR for images + PDFs), has decent search, and has per-folder permissioning and sharing. It's actually a pretty good solution for ad-hoc "working together" with someone (a lawyer / architect / whatever) on a project, where you have lots of files you need to share and refer to during the project.
  - dvdhnt 10y ago
    Totally didn't think of that, especially the OCR which is great, having used it before with the mobile app. I wonder if you could stitch together a workflow as a reseller for Google Apps (no clue what their current name is)? Either way, good suggestion.
ecopoesis 10y ago
Maybe the problem is we're trying to get the wrong people to pay. Since the pain point is with patients, fix it for them and make them pay. Gets around the industry inertia. Sell the service to the patients for some smallish fee ($5 per month) and then provide the integrations into the various provider systems for free. Later on you could scale it up to be an add-on to employee benefits or the health plans.

dvdhnt 10y ago

I'm probably bias because I've lived in two areas now where healthcare is one of a few, if not the, major industry in the area. They're always trying out new apps and services here. I am on board with what you're saying; an escape hatch for non- or semi-adopters. Obviously, printing is a way to go, so maybe on the mobile app, the ability to check each piece of information required then export/email to your preferred destination. It'd also be interesting to look to make money on conversion i/e replacing, or integrating with, the outdated monsters you're talking about. Maybe we're not even talking about healthcare anymore, maybe just the ability to piece together PII (personally identifiable information) and deliver it to X. >>>> on another note This goes into a topic I've seen posts on recently, and something of interest to me, personal indexing; a better way to throw blobs against the wall and have it indexed for me, leading to a personal Google. I mean, that's already coming, really, between Facebook and Google (especially Google Photos) but currently I see nothing about piecing together information I'd like to share on a professional level.

tacostakohashi 10y ago
Hmm, Google Drive does a reasonable job of that. It indexes everything (including OCR for images + PDFs), has decent search, and has per-folder permissioning and sharing. It's actually a pretty good solution for ad-hoc "working together" with someone (a lawyer / architect / whatever) on a project, where you have lots of files you need to share and refer to during the project.
- dvdhnt 10y ago
  Totally didn't think of that, especially the OCR which is great, having used it before with the mobile app. I wonder if you could stitch together a workflow as a reseller for Google Apps (no clue what their current name is)? Either way, good suggestion.

ecopoesis 10y ago

Maybe the problem is we're trying to get the wrong people to pay. Since the pain point is with patients, fix it for them and make them pay. Gets around the industry inertia. Sell the service to the patients for some smallish fee ($5 per month) and then provide the integrations into the various provider systems for free. Later on you could scale it up to be an add-on to employee benefits or the health plans.