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by nslocum 4726 days ago
Do you know of any promising companies that are disrupting healthcare? Of the startups I've seen, drchrono appears to be the best positioned to disrupt, but their mission is focused exclusively on electronic health records.

I'd really like to work at a place that attacks some of the flaws in the current system, but most healthcare companies are too invested and/or dependent on the current system to challenge it.

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DrChrono, from what I have seen, seems oriented towards private practice. This is an interesting choice since private practices are disappearing all over the country.

I'm not really sure they're going to disrupt too much because of that.

It's extremely difficult to disrupt hospital controlled medicine, in part because groups of buyers control what hospitals purchase and they are for the most part extremely conservative.