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YC: Requests for Startups

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514 points sarimkx | 2 comments | 14 Feb 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bruceb ◴[14 Feb 24 19:11 UTC] No.39373838[source]▶
Eliminating middlemen in healthcare

In the spirit of Jeff Bezos’ “your margin is my opportunity”, we believe it’s possible to build a highly profitable business and make the system more efficient at the same time.

Didn't Amazon try this and is now shutting down part of its healthcare (pill selling) play?

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hef19898 ◴[14 Feb 24 19:17 UTC] No.39373919[source]▶
Health Care is one field where nobody can seriously compete with state or state navked players, aka public health care or single payer.

Especially not VC backed start-ups...

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nradov ◴[14 Feb 24 19:46 UTC] No.39374268[source]▶
There is plenty of space for VC backed start-ups to compete in healthcare. It would be foolish to go head-to-head with a company like HCA or UnitedHealth Group. But there is a lot of opportunity to sell them better software which improves the experience for everyone in the system. Or build better medical devices or improve efficiency in the drug development process or a zillion other niche areas.
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skrbjc ◴[14 Feb 24 20:29 UTC] No.39374867[source]▶
Someone needs to tackle Epic in the EMR space and overthrow their closed system.
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1. nradov ◴[14 Feb 24 21:18 UTC] No.39375535[source]▶
Y Combinator has already funded several Epic competitors in the EHR space including DrChrono, Medplum, and Akute Health. Always room for more. The requirements for an EHR that can work in any provider organization are so overwhelming that no startup could directly compete against Epic. But a startup could initially target a particular medical specialty or facility type that Epic doesn't support very well, then expand out from there.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/healthcare-it

Epic is no longer a closed system. They now support a wide range of open standard APIs.

https://open.epic.com/

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2. theGnuMe ◴[14 Feb 24 21:53 UTC] No.39376056[source]▶
There needs to be anti-trust action taken against Epic.