PicnicHealth CEO here. You won't have this problem because we don't miss any data :) But really, if you have old stuff we can't get anymore we can find a way for you to send it over.
PicnicHealth CEO here. We did raise prices to keep quality super high as we scale, but here's a nice discount for our HN friends. Enjoy! https://picnichealth.com/friends-of-picnic
I JUST came across this press release from CCFA and it turns out this project is headed by my GI doc... is your study associated with this IBD Plexus program?
Unrelated, but while you are here, is Picnic still 4 people? I've been interested in applying for a developer position but am tied up with other obligations until late this summer.
What kind of integration with uBiome will you have for regular PicnicHealth users (i.e. users who does not have IBS)? Will the uBiome results be available from the timeline?
Great question! We're still working on our solution. Let me know the best way to reach you and I'll let you know when we've finalized the design there.
PicnicHealth CEO here and happy to answer questions. We're starting with the people who need the product most, so our customers tend to be pretty sick and have a ton of records going back and forth and sometimes multiple doctors appointments per week. We've brought the price down a lot from the companies that do record collection/aggregation for insurance and pharma (about $1000/patient just to start) but stay tuned for an even lower priced option for those with less intensive needs.
We get records as far back as we can. Unfortunately, records that are more than 10 or 15 years old are often destroyed. Offices are only legally required to keep records for a certain period of time (e.g., for 7 years in California), and so after a patient leaves a practice, the practice will typically clear out that patient's records at some point.
Long story short: we get records any records that still exist.
Founder here - Thanks for the good wishes! I totally agree that lots of people don't have the time or inclination to worry about this stuff. I used to be just like that, and then I got sick. That changes everything. When you're ability to function, feel good, and even live hinges on this stuff, you start paying attention real fast.
For the moment we're focused on folks with serious illnesses, but we've got plans down the road for pricing and a product geared more toward the casual user. Thanks again!
Would love to talk offline and hear more about how you're handling this. I'm only just learning about home healthcare deals with this stuff. I'm noga at picnichealth if you have a minute to chat at some point.
Founder here again. This is super cool. I haven't been able to get too much detail on it yet. Most of the health exchanges haven't gone far because they start with government of foundation funding and then have no business model, but with these guys behind it, they actually make sense.
We'd be thrilled if we could focus on building a really good product for making medical data useful for patients instead of building infrastructure for moving it around.
Very true, execution of a health exchange infrastructure has been riddled with troubles in the past.
Interfacing with patient data is still a great idea, practically nonexistent today. a central location for data will only make your service more robust and require less integration.
Think mint.com for medical records. Literally. We help patients find their patient portals. We credential them in (just like mint) with username and password, providing a tool that pulls their data out. We normalize it and display in a meaningful way. Then we go back to the hacky solution of automating e-faxing back out to keep other doctors in the loop.
It's definitely nuts that this would be the solution, but I don't think we can wait for HIEs or for someone to get data access/sharing agreements for exactly the reason you state. Every player is jealously guarding their data.
You're right that we don't get the complete record, but whats in there is actually pretty rich.
Mint.com helps me with financial planning and budgeting. What does access to my medical records help me with? As a patient, does access to historical lab values provide me with actionable information or are the latest results, communicated to me by my physician more valuable? Do you use a predictive model to provide the patient with a health forecast (ie. https://archimedesmodel.com/indigo, they have an API)?
I check my Mint.com account regularly, what would drive me to check my Picnic account regularly?
Hi Mazimi, I'm Victor and working as an engineer at Picnic this summer.
At first we are targeting patients with chronic illnesses. These patients often see doctors in different systems and are not able to view all of their medical information in one place. Picnic will consolidate their data and provide it in an easy to view fashion.
Focusing on patients with chronic illnesses will also help us give meaning to the data. We have a doctor on the team who is categorizing all of the tests as per different conditions and explaining how certain key tests are relevant to your condition. With the explanation, the tests gain meaning and you can see how your health is faring over time.
In the future, we will want to extend these explanations and information to healthy patients to give everyone insight into their health.
As for archimedesmodel, at this point we are not looking at giving health forecasts. We want Picnic to be a tool that clearly shows data to the patient and allows them to have a more productive conversation with their doctors. In the future we may consider extending the feature set.
My insurer does a terrible job of tracking my deductible (burn rate). And there's no integration with HSA/FSA. And no tracking of my recurring expenses like scripts.
In other words, I would LOVE a healthcare themed mint.com.
