| >* A mega platform on top of existing EHR's won't be an easy thing* I built something like this in 2009 and got pretty much noplace with it. Our app, Contineo, was an HL7 compliant, back-end agnostic, mobile front end that would work with any HL7 compliant backend. We were stonewalled by Epic, lead along by Siemens (who had begun talks with us on licensing our technology), we embarrassed Eclipsys as they didnt have a fully HL7 compliant system.... It was really difficult. So we opensourced the tech and gave it to Medsphere to integrate into OpenVista. I still think there is a significant opportunity in disrupting healthcare in the large hospital, but I don't believe its via the EHR at this time, but through the patient room and patient experience. If there are any folks out there that want to collaborate on something - I'd love to meet up. (I applied to Rockhealth's second class and got too interview - but we didn't get selected.) |