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If I may be blunt, it seems to lack a TON of features any modern practicing doctor would want. A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbur

by skwb 7y ago

If I may be blunt, it seems to lack a TON of features any modern practicing doctor would want. A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriously. Given maybe the idea is to only focus on practice management, well you're certainly then going to want to be able to integrate into major EHR vendors, and well they probably don't have any incentive to help. As a person who has a close idea of where the current EHR market is (MS in health econ and a PhD candidate in health informatics), I'm not convinced that there's a significant marketshare that hasn't been met by EHR vendors (allscripts/athenahealth/cerner).

mariushn 7y ago
> A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriously. Not yet. I'm trying to find some paying customers before investing more. > you're certainly then going to want to be able to integrate into major EHR vendors, and well they probably don't have any incentive to help. Indeed. I was aiming to evolve into an EHR itself to overcome this. > I'm not convinced that there's a significant marketshare Since I have a hard time finding customers, this seems right. How would to recommend to proceed to carve out a niche in this market?
- skwb 7y ago
  I would say your primary strength right now is that you're clearly skilled in developing an aesthetically pleasing front end experience, something that EPIC and other major vendors don't do well (there's an entire PhD thesis to this, but the tldr is that the vendors primary 'selling point' is to help increase revenue from reimbursements). The biggest opportunity area imho are clinical 'apps' using interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR). While EPIC and CERNER have a lot of functionality, they don't cover everything (like certain clinical calculators/ better visual representations of data). There are certainly unmet clinical needs from these apps, and if you're willing to put in the effort to do more background research, I'm certain you can find some of these unmet needs. It's admittedly a very different strategy that you're currently pitching, but I think it's where there is significant growth for For further references that are useful: [1]. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-overdose-harm-in-a-wired-hospital/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-overdose-harm-in-a-wired-h... [2]. https://apporchard.epic.com/ https://apporchard.epic.com/ [3]. https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-you-need-know-about-smart-fhir-perfcon https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo... [4]. https://apps.smarthealthit.org/ https://apps.smarthealthit.org/
  - mariushn 7y ago
    Thank you! I'll look into this. Appreciate taking the time to list references.

by skwb 7y ago

mariushn 7y ago

> A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriously. Not yet. I'm trying to find some paying customers before investing more. > you're certainly then going to want to be able to integrate into major EHR vendors, and well they probably don't have any incentive to help. Indeed. I was aiming to evolve into an EHR itself to overcome this. > I'm not convinced that there's a significant marketshare Since I have a hard time finding customers, this seems right. How would to recommend to proceed to carve out a niche in this market?

skwb 7y ago
I would say your primary strength right now is that you're clearly skilled in developing an aesthetically pleasing front end experience, something that EPIC and other major vendors don't do well (there's an entire PhD thesis to this, but the tldr is that the vendors primary 'selling point' is to help increase revenue from reimbursements). The biggest opportunity area imho are clinical 'apps' using interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR). While EPIC and CERNER have a lot of functionality, they don't cover everything (like certain clinical calculators/ better visual representations of data). There are certainly unmet clinical needs from these apps, and if you're willing to put in the effort to do more background research, I'm certain you can find some of these unmet needs. It's admittedly a very different strategy that you're currently pitching, but I think it's where there is significant growth for For further references that are useful: [1]. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-overdose-harm-in-a-wired-hospital/ https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-overdose-harm-in-a-wired-h... [2]. https://apporchard.epic.com/ https://apporchard.epic.com/ [3]. https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-you-need-know-about-smart-fhir-perfcon https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo... [4]. https://apps.smarthealthit.org/ https://apps.smarthealthit.org/
- mariushn 7y ago
  Thank you! I'll look into this. Appreciate taking the time to list references.