Inspiration
As former Executive Director of IT at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and former CIO at Baylor College of Medicine, I invested significant effort toward collecting, sharing, and maintaining accurate and timely provider data (clinician credentials). Provider data is required to initiate and sustain business functions including; credentialing, on-boarding, directories, faculty appointments, billing, EMR provisioning and much more. Bad or outdated provider data costs the health care industry $26 billion annually and there is currently no solution that addresses the problem.
What it does
Signature is the first cloud-based technology that offers a comprehensive solution for medical groups, hospitals, and payers that seek access to the most accurate and timely provider data.
How we built it
Using Bootstrap for the interface, PHP and Falcon for our APIs we have developed a technology platform that addresses provider data challenges across the health care industry but also serves as the common people identifier necessary to for all interoperability solutions as well as population health.
Challenges we ran into
The platform chicken and egg problem. We need to connect with an environment that can show off our solution across various health care settings. Everyone loves it but want to see that other will use it.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have developed a minimum viable product and have it running in 3 medical practices.
What we learned
Great technology needs great sales and marketing to compliment it.
What's next for Signature
We are raising $900K to develop an ecosystem that makes the same provider data available to medical groups, hospitals, and payers.
