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Putting healthcare in hackers' hands

94 pointsby kategleasonabout 12 years ago

10 comments

TomaszZielinskiabout 12 years ago
So I want to know their address and company registration data, just to know who to sue in case of a leak :)<p><a href="https://www.eligibleapi.com/about-us" rel="nofollow">https://www.eligibleapi.com/about-us</a> - nothing <a href="https://www.eligibleapi.com/privacy" rel="nofollow">https://www.eligibleapi.com/privacy</a> - nothing <a href="https://www.eligibleapi.com/security" rel="nofollow">https://www.eligibleapi.com/security</a> - nothing <a href="https://www.eligibleapi.com/faq" rel="nofollow">https://www.eligibleapi.com/faq</a> - yay, there's an email address :)<p>Seriously, what am I missing?
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seanwoodsabout 12 years ago
What does this company actually do? Seems like you need to know a million buzz words, then take a leap, in order to figure out what problems this solves.<p>I'm a health care informatics professional (mostly clinical, not billing) and I can't seem to divine it.
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aantixabout 12 years ago
This is pretty amazing, not sure why it's not getting more attention.<p>The patient records (MRI, CT scan images, doctor writeups) are probably a lot harder to standardize I'm assuming?<p>That seems to be the missing piece from this API. Otherwise, great job you guys.. Open up the industry!
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carbocationabout 12 years ago
This looks incredibly powerful. If there were no edge cases of unsupported insurance companies, I think you'd be able to build tools around this service (as it currently is, not what it promises to be) to replace an entire class of office jobs already.
tommy_mabout 12 years ago
Does anyone know if a similar API exists for patient billing records? I see the OP API provides information on claims, but those are not necessarily detailed bills. I would assume that the answer is no, due to the many forms such bills could take. I am hoping they are required to have/provide an electronic bill in a set format, perhaps for medicare reimbursement purposes? Thanks......
brechinabout 12 years ago
This looks amazing, and puts a lot of patient-focused data out in a much more usable format.<p>I wonder about other parts of the chain (e.g. payer &#60;-&#62; provider) could benefit from this kind of tech-enabling?
kmax12about 12 years ago
How does develop an app with this without paying .05 for every api call? Seems like there is a need for some sort of testing sandbox where development can be done.
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voyvfabout 12 years ago
Well... this certainly beats parsing HL7, especially v2.x (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7#HL7_version_2.x" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Level_7#HL7_version_2.x</a> for those not familiar with it.)<p>Good work. :D
nwzpapermanabout 12 years ago
The problem is insurance companies and the gordian knot of legislation they've erected to block wise reform. You can't have real reform that includes them.
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craig552ukabout 12 years ago
So... hospitals can reject the uninsured even more quickly...?
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