Anyone have an idea as to how so many Y-Combinator companies get this kind of mind blowingly awesome press? is it just the brand recognition of being a YC company?
So when someone overseas hacks thousands of medical records and posts them online (essentially a permanent archive because it will get saved and reuploaded over time) because of a guaranteed security hole somewhere among the numerous layers, how will that be undone? Who will go to prison? and will it change anything?<p>Some things should not be on the internet. Military secrets and medical files are two of them.<p>Can you imagine the nightmare if our nuclear silos were built today and powered by Windows and linked on the internet because it was more cost effective for the lowest bidder?
I'd love to buy my dad an iPad with this app. He's old but moderately tech savvy so I'm hoping that the UI will be simple enough for him to understand.
Major healthcare IT companies like Centricity and Epic already provide iPad apps for physicians to use. drchrono says their biggest competition is paper charts because everyone that already has an electronic records system would rather use an iPad app provided by the same vendor.
My problem with this is that the patient information is stored "in the cloud". As such, the terms of any agreements always favor the provider if the information ever escapes.
drchrono should hook up with Seattle design firm Artefact. They just won an award for design work for Seattle Children's Hospital creating a tablet interface for medical charts. More info at <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_hospital_apps.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_hospital_...</a>