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Re:Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information f... by ahstilde on Friday January 29, 2021 @10:15AM (#25958030)
Why do doctors want "curated, evidence - based answers" to their questions? Why does a health system want this for their doctors?
Re:Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information f... by aadvani on Friday January 29, 2021 @10:47AM (#25958451)
I can understand this take, many docs don’t like to ask questions at all.

But there’s a new school type of doc that realizes how vast the medical literature is (20m studies), how quickly it’s changing (20,000 just added on COVID), and has tons of questions.

All medical references were essentially converted to SAAS products from large books- so they’re thousands of pages covering the mainstream topics, and they answer only ~1/2 of questions.

Health systems employ clinical pharmacists to answer the other 1/2 with evidence because it’s insanely high ROI for them to do so (5M/ pharmacist/ year/ hospital). Health systems outsource this to us because we’re more efficient.

Re:Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information f... by ahstilde on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:26AM (#25959026)
> Health systems employ clinical pharmacists to answer the other 1/2 with evidence because it’s insanely high ROI for them to do so (5M/ pharmacist/ year/ hospital).

I didn't know this.

In that case, software is probably way more scalable than hiring more and more pharmacists.

Re:Launch HN: InpharmD (YC W21) – curated drug information f... by aadvani on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:21PM (#25959778)
This is our hope :-)