EHR/EMR Inefficiencies

Speaking from a US perspective: I'll just add onto the point about EHR/EMRs being generally pretty bad. It's like medical IT is about 20 years behind in terms of tech, so I'm not surprised to see that it's contributing to an overall inefficiency in the medical space. On one hand, you have Epic's EMR, which is easily the best in the industry, and reasonably feature-rich and appears appreciated by doctors in my experience. On the other hand, you have almost everyone e

In the US, Everyone knows doctor reports and electronic medical records and all are broken. This isn't a tech problem or a novel idea. Hospital administration and healthcare IT is one of the most fundamentally broken amd inefficiencies industries you can imagine. Regulatory capture, bureaucracy, inertia, established players like Epic with products that might not even be compatible between two installations of the same product. And thousands of startups with great new ideas that will definit

Hi, I'm a 3 time healthcare entrepreneur (10 years) who has been down this path, and many like it, several times already. The problem you are describing is well known and in your hospital's IT queue, just so low on the list to be invisible.As others have rightly pointed out, the technical issues are perhaps 10% of the problem. On top of that, because each EHR is configured so differently, your solution will be a consulting effort not a product (read: expensive)My suggestion - tho

My girlfriend does some admin work at a hospital that uses meditech software, seems like the kind of old bulky enterprise software startups are trying to replace. It covers a lot of areas in hospital admin as far as I know, more than just the doctors interactions with patients. I have mnetioned it would be great for doctors to take out the middle man and use things like ipads so this seems great for that.Just wondering if you have thought about integrating into the big bulky industry standard

Congratulations! A welcome change in healthcare.Are you building a relationship with the hospitals and clinics so that we wont't have to talk to them, but just use your api to get and push our patient's data?

I just went to the Dr this morning and the prognosis was their systems are horrible and just getting worse... Apparently the Allscripts program they use gets really really slow about once a week and is generally over capacity.It was neat that they could pull up some records from a hospital visit from a few years ago but generally it was really painful to watch. On the drive back I was thinking to myself "YC should invest in as many EHR companies as possible." Your service seems very

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735023Related, "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers" (2018), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...

I created the ClearHealth/HealthCloud open source (GPL) EMR which to my knowledge is the only open source one to receive full federal certification. Operations (not surgery) are so incredibly bad / incompetent in most healthcare settings that software frequently gets the blame for much deeper problems. This article is a doctors perspective on how software did not fix a completely broken workflow. I don't begrudge him that but there is no software in the world that can ever address

It's not at all an edge case when writing healthcare software.

Getting US hospitals to use your software is super hard. Majority of them are using Epic, and won't entertain you much if you don't provide Epic integration. And Epic is almost a closed system, they've done their best to make sure that integration with them is almost impossible for small companies.