Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund
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Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund
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#2This is well worth applying to -- amazing program
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#3"Your Black Swan idea"? I hope they realise that...
spoiler
...she dies at the end.
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#4"Your Black Swan idea"? I hope they realise that... spoiler ...she dies at the end.
I think they're probably referring to Taleb's concept of black swan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory)
Re: Healthcare tech ideas we'd like to fund
#51) A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing. It would require them to play ball and large players, like Epic, probably won't.
2) Chronic disease management is important, but really challenging. People don't really spend their days thinking about their illness. They don't look forward to having their blood sugar assessed. Any kind of disease management program is going to require that the patient be minimally engaged, yet data still effectively collected and assessed. The only evidence of real consumer engagement in health has been with respect to personal fitness.
3) HIPAA in a box is going to require some involvement of the government. They've thrown these regulations out there with rather vague specifications as to how they would be applied to ehealth initiatives. If the government wants to enforce this, which they have begun doing, they have to provide better guidance.
Just a few thoughts. In general though, Rock Health has grown into a great program and anyone who is pursuing a health related startup should give it strong consideration.
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#61) A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing. It would require them to play ball and large players, like Epic, probably won't. 2) Chronic disease management is important, but really challenging. People don't really spend their days thinking about their illness. They don't look forward to having their blood sugar assessed. Any kind of disease management program is going to require that the patien…
These are some good points. On the EHR question, I think what we would like to see is a company that starts using the work coming out of Standards & Interoperability (S&I)[1]. One can reasonably expect that much of this work will surface in Meaningful Use requirements (since one of the primary objectives of MU is interoperability) and thus would force vendors, including Epic, to comply. The platform here would do the "hard work" of integrating under the S&I frameworks to multiple endpoints and exposing the integration through developer-friendly APIs, similar to what Eligible has done on the administrative side. We see this type of "easy" integration leading to more modularity for EHRs (which is supported by Meaningful Use requirements) and ultimately better end products for hospitals and patients.
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#7One of their ideas is quite close to something I'm working on.
However, I wasn't exactly thinking about using an accelerator, and I haven't head about them. A quick search on HN doesn't give a lot of results.
Does anyone here has had some personal experience with them? Feel free to contact me by email if you do not want to post a reply.
[I'm not interested on the PR I can find with google, but by personal experiences, opinions]
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#81) A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing. It would require them to play ball and large players, like Epic, probably won't. 2) Chronic disease management is important, but really challenging. People don't really spend their days thinking about their illness. They don't look forward to having their blood sugar assessed. Any kind of disease management program is going to require that the patien…
These are some good points. On the EHR question, I think what we would like to see is a company that starts using the work coming out of Standards & Interoperability (S&I)[1]. One can reasonably expect that much of this work will surface in Meaningful Use requirements (since one of the primary objectives of MU is interoperability) and thus would force vendors, including Epic, to comply. The platform here would do the…
Why do you think past efforts haven't "panned out" yet? Is it:
a) they're working on it, but just not there yet
b) the major EHR do everything in their power to delay progress by providing token access
c) it's actually very hard to sync medical records across so many different standards / systems
d) not enough patient / doctor demand / use-cases, i.e. people don't transfer as much as we think they do, diluting the value of inter-operability
? or something else? all of the above?
This area of HIT fascinates me because I hypothesize that it's a necessary precursor to reform. But, knowing little about the space, I'm not sure where to start my investigation.
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#9One of their ideas is quite close to something I'm working on. However, I wasn't exactly thinking about using an accelerator, and I haven't head about them. A quick search on HN doesn't give a lot of results. Does anyone here has had some personal experience with them? Feel free to contact me by email if you do not want to post a reply. [I'm not interested on the PR I can find with google, but by personal experiences…
If you don't hear from one of our alumni because they happen to miss this thread, feel free to e-mail me (e-mail is in profile) and I would be happy to connect you with someone.
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#10As someone both with a chronic disease, and who works in Health IT -- personal health tracking is something I'd very much like to see (and am working on in my spare time).
Part of the problem with chronic illness is that our (well, my!) dumb monkey-brains don't cope with it too well. I degraded, slowly, over the course of two years -- ending up in hospital very recently. On a day-to-day basis, over that course of time, you just don't notice you're getting worse -- what's an extra minute of cramping, introduced over the course of a month? Having a tool which tracked me, and would let me see (in a chart plotted over time) that I've crossed a line and need to seek help would probably have helped me avoid a week-long stay in hospital, and a commitment to take some (relatively) nasty drugs for the next couple of months.
When I got released, I went and bought a Fitbit Aria for weight-tracking (and am building something that'll query their API and expose my weight data, alongside other data I'll track via a mobile app), and it's excellent. The ease-of-use is the main thing; not needing to manually enter my weight after weighing myself means my data's always there. I'm not sure how I'll accomplish that for the other stuff I want to track, but it should be interesting figuring it out!
So, in short: this is an area I'm stoked to see investment in.