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Is there some reason the pulmonary machine doesn't do HL7 or equivalent? Is it just not configured?
Otherwise, you might have to parse the data from the serial port.
My unsolicited advice: rather than being "fairly certain" that you can make $500/mo with your idea so that you would prefer to start a company first, I suggest that you reverse the order of operations. First, be certain that you can make $500/mo by building it yourself and get the hospital paying $500/mo. Then, if the opportunity looks good, start organizing (aka building an organization, a company) around that. You'…
It sounds like you're seeing a lot of problems in healthcare. That's good you're noticing them. It sounds like you also want to solve some of them, mostly because you're fed up with them being problems. That's also good. The best kinds of solutions often come from scratching your own itch.
Another similar recommendation: get more specific about what you want to solve. "Disrupting healthcare" is a platitude anyone can agree with because the news runs a segment every day about inefficiency in the health system. If you see 10 problems, does 1 stand out way above the rest? Work on that problem.
Just building a quick & dirty solution and shopping it around like smalter suggests is the best thing you can do to prevent working on a problem you'll burn out of in 6 months. You'll very quickly realize whether you really want to do that thing or not.
Founder of a SF-based healthcare-related startup here. Emailed you. I'm not looking for a job but happy to help how I can. EDIT: To anyone in the Bay Area (or really anywhere) also thinking about joining this industry, feel free to reach out to me too. My cofounders and I have learned way more than we want to know over the past few months about the healthcare industry + the startup side of things and are happy to pas…
Sorry to piggy back on your post. But Indian Medical Doc here pursuing Orthopedic Surgery Residency who also codes in Python, Django, Frontend and Excellent in UI/UX is also looking for some help !! If there is anyone in the audience who is a full stack python guy located in India or USA and can help me disrupt Health care Kindly get in touch. Have lived and worked in some of the finest hospitals in US (viz: Ny Presb…
What is Health Enclave? I can't figure it out when I look at the site. Looks like a content farm?
Just to add to what you are saying, it isn't just docs wasting time with systems that don't play nicely. Radiology is a hotbed of IT chaos with dozens (zero exaggeration) of systems that just do not work properly. Cardiac CT reports, MRI Spectro, CT dose reports, RIS systems and the PACS (there are about 20 data points on this one alone) etc. Basically anything that has any post processing done is also displayed horr…
We have a group of friends who are familiar with healthcare and have programming backgrounds.
What you describe is an incremental improvement.
One, never approach a community that lives and breathes startups using words such as "fairly certain," and "try." They have no power here.
Two, start the company, make a respectable business plan, and then whore yourself out. No one is going to be interested in a joint venture with a few paragraphs of information to go on.
You don't have to be perfect, nor do you even need a full roadmap of ideas or plans, but people need to see that you're willing to put effort into it. No one makes a successful startup, especially in the medical field without considerable research and effort. If people don't see that you're willing to put in the time, they'll never get behind you.