He's selling the designs now - good for him, they're great.
(BTW, turning a PSD into a website should be kinda hard for folks that don't work that way).
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#22He's selling the designs now - good for him, they're great. (BTW, turning a PSD into a website should be kinda hard for folks that don't work that way).
Unfortunately a PSD is not a design, esp. for a website, but I'm sure people will find that out if they choose to buy them - I think a better model would be to offer to sell services, not a 'design' which, while pretty, is static and probably in many respects wrong.
Design is a process and a way of thinking, not decoration.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
MU is a term frequently used in Health IT field. I'm not sure if the actual customers (physicians/doctors) will know about the term. Unless of course, there is an internal "IT evaluation team" evaluating the product and then I don't think design/UX matters anymore.
MU = Meaningful Use The person making the purchasing decision will almost certainly know about this. A provider must meet certain "meaningful use" criteria to be eligible for tax credits, and so this designation indicates that DrChrono meets some of these requirements. I think it's fair to say that most organizations currently looking to buy an EHR are doing so because they want to take advantage of these tax incenti…
I know what MU means because of the original site. I asked 3 doctors and a dentist about "MU" and "EHR" and only one knew what both were.
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#24Reminds me of Godaddy
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#25Have you had any job offers or have any of these startups contacted you?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
MU = Meaningful Use The person making the purchasing decision will almost certainly know about this. A provider must meet certain "meaningful use" criteria to be eligible for tax credits, and so this designation indicates that DrChrono meets some of these requirements. I think it's fair to say that most organizations currently looking to buy an EHR are doing so because they want to take advantage of these tax incenti…
I know what MU means because of the original site. I asked 3 doctors and a dentist about "MU" and "EHR" and only one knew what both were.
Yeah, it's a pretty big untapped market! Did you tell them that they can get $40k from the government and replace all their paper files with iPads? It's the new hotness.
Caveat: You can throw out any data points if those providers are part of a larger healthcare network that makes all the decisions for them about what software to buy. For example, if the doctor is part of Blah Blah Medical Group and they're (probably begrudgingly) forced to use something like Relay Health, then they've essentially offloaded that decision to an administrator somewhere.
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#27While I applaud the effort, this seems like a very short-sighted project. Design is not about how things look, it's about how things work to advance a set of goals. And it's very difficult to know how things work without research and exploration. Any new design would start with reviewing stats, business goals and the competition. Projects that don't do that should more-aptly be called "re-colouring" or "moving things…
Why is design the only profession where it's frowned upon to evaluate the end result?
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#28For this series of redesigns, I think it'd be helpful to include a screenshot of the current design both for easier side by side comparison and for posterity.
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#29While I applaud the effort, this seems like a very short-sighted project. Design is not about how things look, it's about how things work to advance a set of goals. And it's very difficult to know how things work without research and exploration. Any new design would start with reviewing stats, business goals and the competition. Projects that don't do that should more-aptly be called "re-colouring" or "moving things…
The letter from the AA designer doesn't support your position at all. The reason he couldn't do a major redesign of the site was because of all the bureaucracy making it impossible. That shouldn't apply to a YC startup.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know what MU means because of the original site. I asked 3 doctors and a dentist about "MU" and "EHR" and only one knew what both were.
Yeah, it's a pretty big untapped market! Did you tell them that they can get $40k from the government and replace all their paper files with iPads? It's the new hotness. Caveat: You can throw out any data points if those providers are part of a larger healthcare network that makes all the decisions for them about what software to buy. For example, if the doctor is part of Blah Blah Medical Group and they're (probably…
They were all familiar with incentives to put records into the computer but were less/not familiar with the acronyms.