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Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Re: Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Post by krashidov »

aadvani wrote: post #39
avrionov wrote: post #37

10 days ago someone posted a similar idea and how he failed. "I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25825917 I hope your project succeeds.

This is gold, thank you. He went after the same problem, yes, but with a traditional SAAS approach. We feel strongly that the only way to make this work is to have humans on our back end, thoughtfully automated with tech (vs the other way around).

How did you get around the problem of having the doctors actually care ?

Re: Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Post by FL33TW00D »

lunarFlash wrote: post #13
FL33TW00D wrote: post #7

I've just spend the last few months working on a medication potency scoring system using ASHP data. Would be interested to hear more about your approach.

ASHP's drug information data is very complex in structure and finely tagged. Instead of a traditional algorithmic approach, we are leveraging machine learning to build Sherlock. We are using AWS's machine learning service called Kendra, which indexes the clinical content, and provide search based on natural language processing. In our testing, it is able to find relevant information with pretty good results. Kendra a…

Sounds very interesting! I think something like this could be applicable: https://yjernite.github.io/lfqa.html

Although with the finely tagged data it may not be necessary.

Re: Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Post by aadvani »

krashidov wrote: post #51
aadvani wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is gold, thank you. He went after the same problem, yes, but with a traditional SAAS approach. We feel strongly that the only way to make this work is to have humans on our back end, thoughtfully automated with tech (vs the other way around).

How did you get around the problem of having the doctors actually care ?

Clinical pharmacists at every hospital have been key. Many docs prefer to still rely on their clinical pharmacist, which is fine because they (the clinical pharmacists) end up relying on us. Over time, it’s become simpler for many docs to just ask us themselves.

Also, a newsfeed with common/ interesting questions has really helped since the experience gets better with more users.

Re: Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Post by pabs3 »

Seems like this centralises the experience answering the questions with the people in your organisation rather than the wider community of clinical pharmacists embedded in hospitals. Have you considered a more distributed approach that avoids this? I'm not really sure how to word this question better, sorry.

Re: Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information for doctors

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Post by aadvani »

pabs3 wrote: post #57

Seems like this centralises the experience answering the questions with the people in your organisation rather than the wider community of clinical pharmacists embedded in hospitals. Have you considered a more distributed approach that avoids this? I'm not really sure how to word this question better, sorry.

Yes! But shouldn’t it be central? There are hundreds of thousands of clinical pharmacists answering similar questions every day. To your point- everyone asks unique questions so still get unique answers that they can then combine with patient- specific preferences to make personal decisions.

Am I answering what you asked ? Sorry if not!

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