Starting a team for Nurse Informatics and Electronic Medical Record keeping.

[Nateno80]

My name is Nate, I'm 31 years old, and currently in school to get my RN license. I am licensed as a psychiatric technician and have 6 years of experience working as a medication nurse for an inpatient psychiatric facility. I would also call myself a very avid PC gamer and have an expert level of understanding technology.

My plan is to specialize in nurse Informatics and eventually develop a piece of software that would allow for a standardized system of electronic medical record keeping and to allow for easy modification and customization of that software.

In a nutshell, I'm starting a business focused on the horrendous state of electronic medical record keeping that will develop software as a backbone to be used by all hospitals.

After assembling a team we will develop a prototype and pitch that idea to a crowd sourcing website such as kickstarter. I'm looking for nurses, lawyers, software coders and business experts.

[Alex Egan, LPN, EMT-B]

Ok... Feels like that's a pretty saturated market. Lots of hospitals have some form of e charting in place already, you would have to bring some serious thunder to get them to drop the millions that it takes to transfer from one to another. It's not just the price of YOUR product but the data entry, employee training, ect.

If you're interested in this you may want to find an underserved speciality. PDN leaps to mind, most major agency's are still on paper charts.

I have worked for a few summer camps who have changed software venders because of changing needs.

The trick is research, you have to be sure your working on and ultimately selling what people actually want, rather than what you think they want.

listen to season 2 of the startup podcast. It's about a company that tried to start a dating app. It can give you some insight on tech startups.

Good luck.