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Mert Celebi
@mert_celebi · CTO, PatientBank
One important point @lukedeannif brought up is our Hospital Scores! Since October 2015, PatientBank has collected more than 10,000 medical records from over 2,300 hospitals. As we gather medical records for more and more patients, we learn a lot! So, we created a simple rubric for measuring hospitals' openness and responsiveness.
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Paul Fletcher-Hill
@pfletcherhill · CEO, PatientBank
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Paul, one of the founders of PatientBank.
A few years ago, I wanted to make a website that used my own medical data. Naively, I assumed that would be an easy task. But I quickly realized that wasn't the case. The best I could do was send letters to all my doctors asking for my medical records. Months later I got a lot of paper in the m… See more
Kelly Kuhn-Wallace
@kkdub · Coach: Grow Your Biz w/o the Crazy
Best. Thing. Ever. I had Cushing's Disease. It's difficult to diagnose. My case took almost 10 years, doctors in 4 states, and file boxes full of medical records. Patients with incurable diseases or chronic conditions have even steeper mountains of paperwork to manage. A service like PatientBank will help patients and caregivers spend more time living and le… See more
Luke
@lukedeannif · Health IT Entrepreneur
I think one of the most interesting pieces of your offering is the ratings system for hospitals. This will surely stir the pot if it hasn't already. Great tool for patients to make informed decisions and pressure their providers to be more open. Are you doing anything to include the digitized records as structured data/go the HIE/FHIR/interop route?
Paul Alexander
@palexander · Founder, Lexigram
Congrats on the launch PatientBank team! Solutions in this space are sorely needed. You can see from the discussion here just how fragmented the healthcare data space is, and the more companies working on standardizing, unifying, and structuring the giant mess of data that represents patients now, the better the system will get.
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