Call me an old fart, but I think startups like these are good to have. No offense to any of the YC founders, but I think the variety of YC companies that are operating sometimes makes me feel that the "idea bar" is quite low.<p>Though, I think this EDC/clinical trails data collection is a great place to innovate in. Having worked as a software engineer in a CRO before, I know how slow the development lifecycles are and sometimes even the end users are very slow to adopt. A startup can shake things up by pushing for better data collection and analysis techniques, more automation as well as better end to end phase management.
The UI of the application in the demo video looks like it was designed by Java engineers.<p>Design is still probably not a big selling point in enterprise.<p>Other than that, I love the business concept.
I'm surprised to see their example visualizations.[1] They look like the defaults in Excel's charts, to me, as opposed to some of the other approaches out there.[2,3] I realize that a lot of their position is unchaining the carefully controlled medical data sources, but the presentation of that data is still a big part.<p>Edit: formatting.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.comprehend.com/learn-more/" rel="nofollow">http://www.comprehend.com/learn-more/</a>
[2]: <a href="http://d3js.org/" rel="nofollow">http://d3js.org/</a>
[3]: <a href="https://mixpanel.com/" rel="nofollow">https://mixpanel.com/</a>