Putting healthcare in hackers' hands

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?

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.

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!

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.

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......

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?

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.

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

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.

So... hospitals can reject the uninsured even more quickly...?