CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
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Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#2From one healthcare entrepreneur to another, congrats. It's difficult to clear that hurdle, especially with the two-sided approach of doctors and patients. What's been your biggest challenge with patient adherence / engagement?
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#3From one healthcare entrepreneur to another, congrats. It's difficult to clear that hurdle, especially with the two-sided approach of doctors and patients. What's been your biggest challenge with patient adherence / engagement?
We got patients engaged through an app delivery method that integrates a few key features of messages and engagement. Would be happy to connect with you and discuss more :)..
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#4tashfeens, I'm always skeptical about healthcare startups. A few questions: How accurate are your predictions, and how do you assess accuracy? (Do you have any prospective studies?) How is this better than the nanny reminders in current EMRs such as Epic? How does your platform deal with missing data when a chunk of a patient's visits are not transmitted to your platform?
Does the software parse free text, depend on someone taking the time to curate a list of "problems" or "diagnoses", or just look at lab values? What is the explanation given by the software when it makes a recommendation, other than deference to a statistical model?
Why would I, a physician, want to spend time or money on this rather than depend on my own sensibilities and training? (I am not going to watch the demo video on your website because I will not agree to an NDA.)
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#5That's one ugly EKG in the logo...
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#6tashfeens, I'm always skeptical about healthcare startups. A few questions: How accurate are your predictions, and how do you assess accuracy? (Do you have any prospective studies?) How is this better than the nanny reminders in current EMRs such as Epic? How does your platform deal with missing data when a chunk of a patient's visits are not transmitted to your platform? Does the software parse free text, depend on…
I'm not tashfeens, but given that you have a CS degree and an MD, I'd be curious as to what makes you skeptical about healthcare startups. Or, conversely, what should a healthcare startup do to earn the respect of you and your colleagues?
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#7Congrats! As an healthcare entrepreneur I appreciate the hurdles and challenges of this space. I run AsthmaMD [1]
Our app and hardware is distributed in every 15000 CVS and Walgreens in US.
I'd be happy to meet and discuss any opportunities for partnership.
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#8Congrats! As an healthcare entrepreneur I appreciate the hurdles and challenges of this space. I run AsthmaMD [1] Our app and hardware is distributed in every 15000 CVS and Walgreens in US. I'd be happy to meet and discuss any opportunities for partnership. 1: http://www.AsthmaMD.org
This is very interesting. As a med student with a programming and CS background, these efforts are particularly appealing to me. It seems that (polling healthcare workers, mainly docs) technology (EMR) is more of a hindrance than a benefit, which to me has always seemed like poor design, gamblers fallacy + overwhelming costs associated with changing software in a large hospital. I don't see how this can change unless there are standard protocols that allow for flexible data entry and analysis. The problem I see with this new system is that it doesn't (at the surface) appear to offer anything new, whereas asthamMD is creating objective data and a unique pipeline between healthcare teams and patient. It seems like we are just waiting for some software revolution that actually saves doctor time and improves patient outcomes - rather than generate data for administrators and bureaucrats at the cost of inefficiency.
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#9tashfeens, I'm always skeptical about healthcare startups. A few questions: How accurate are your predictions, and how do you assess accuracy? (Do you have any prospective studies?) How is this better than the nanny reminders in current EMRs such as Epic? How does your platform deal with missing data when a chunk of a patient's visits are not transmitted to your platform? Does the software parse free text, depend on…
The fact that it's not Epic is a huge plus in my book.
Eef: I've seen the horror that is Epic's 1980's terminal SQL nightmare backend. Lipstick on a dead, rotting windows-only pig running on citrix.
Re: CloudMedx (YC W15) Helps Doctors Spot Patients Who Will Need Expensive Treatment
#10Spot expensive patients so they can be denied and reap more profit.