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If they don't have a solution already, anything that schedules custom pharmacy mixes based on physician orders in a medical records system is worth millions. I wouldn't go so far as to connect it to an actual drug mixing system though -- let the pharmacists take care of that.

These are short-lived mixes that can't be stored for a long time, so must be prepared on-site.

Bonus if you can plug into an inventory system and get alerts for drug shortages. These can happen pretty regularly, on the order of six or seven times per year.

You'll write a lot of custom code to connect to that medical system API, and often there are surprise and sparsely documented features. That's mostly why you set a high price for it.

We did one of these and quickly saved the hospital millions because we had before and after photos of pharmacy waste generated. They weren't wasting drug mixes for cancelled orders any more when a doctor forgot to call/fax the pharmacy or the patient had been checked out/moved.

Before-hand, they were collecting this information manually with some cobbled together reports. It was nuts.

This isn't turnkey though. You will work for the money trying to sell to hospitals with bloated change management processes.



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