To me, it seems that those who are asking/questioning the differences between MedCredits and the other projects are not performing adequate due diligence. From what I understand, some projects are hoping to become a 3rd party, connecting existing EMRs together (Patientory) or providing a service (Bowhead, MedCredits). There are also references to creating new EMRs, but I personally think that should be a secondary/tertiary goal as, as referenced in this thread, there are hundreds of EMRs already in existence. The lesser known EMRs typically target smaller clinics/facilities as the market share of medium-large hospitals already belong to EMRs such as Epic, Allscripts, etc. Projects such as Patientory face a hurdle of larger EMRs already collaborating to create a Health Information Exchange so that patient information can flow freely between organizations and systems.
I feel this is a strong project because although Telemedicine (and preventative medicine) is the direction the United States (and perhaps other regions, as well) is heading, it is limited to demographics which presumably have established health care already as the initiatives with the most momentum are organizationally driven. This large gap (those who do not have health care) gave rise to services such as WebMD, and here in the Silicon Valley, start-ups pushing to create other tele health/Concierge Health services who are doing it without a blockchain.
What are the plans around staffing the tele-derm/tele-health service? In order to keep use of this service accessible, would that require artificially keeping the value of MEDX tokens down or will it scale based on the current market value? Example: If MEDX becomes valued at $10 and MEDX servivces are ~100 MEDX, what benefits are there for a patient to use the MedCredits service over traditional services? If a scaling system is used, how would you present that to patients in a way that is easily digestible? How do you plan to interoperate with the other established EMRs? Lastly, are there any plans in addressing health insurance and it's historically low/non-existent reimbursement for tele-health services?
I look forward to learning more about your work.
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