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Really cool stuff. I have few friends who are pharmacists maybe I could develop something with them. :)

• FLUX-YOU 8y ago
  If they don't have a solution already, anything that schedules custom pharmacy mixes based on physician orders in a medical records system is worth millions. I wouldn't go so far as to connect it to an actual drug mixing system though -- let the pharmacists take care of that. These are short-lived mixes that can't be stored for a long time, so must be prepared on-site. Bonus if you can plug into an inventory system and get alerts for drug shortages. These can happen pretty regularly, on the order of six or seven times per year. You'll write a lot of custom code to connect to that medical system API, and often there are surprise and sparsely documented features. That's mostly why you set a high price for it. We did one of these and quickly saved the hospital millions because we had before and after photos of pharmacy waste generated. They weren't wasting drug mixes for cancelled orders any more when a doctor forgot to call/fax the pharmacy or the patient had been checked out/moved. Before-hand, they were collecting this information manually with some cobbled together reports. It was nuts. This isn't turnkey though. You will work for the money trying to sell to hospitals with bloated change management processes.
• PiggySpeed 8y ago
  Pharmacist & software dev here -- my goodness please do, the technology infrastructure supporting pharmacy is massively outdated and I've had to fight against it to do my job properly. Among many other problems, explore what can be done in compounding.