Startup Idea: Health IT Application for Comprehensive Medical History and Prescription Tracking

Startup idea to develop a health IT application designed to seamlessly track an individual's complete medical history and prescription fills/utilisation. This innovative tool would integrate personal medical records and medication trackings into one application, including feature to set reminders or notifications for doctors about medication intake behaviour of their patients.

This is something that is desperately needed and likely not all that hard to develop. I work in the health industry and so this would be health IT related. There has been widespread discussion about health IT and one area that needs further development is the ability to completely track your own medical history, not just medical records. In particular, there are not a lot of good applications that track an individual’s prescription fills, utilization, and medical records into one application. It is one thing to track a medical history and whether a prescription one was written, but it is an entirely different issue to track prescriptions and utilization. It could even have reminders and notifications linkedin to the doctor so they know whether or not you are taking your medication.

Both the medical history and a medication tracker need to be combined into a single application. For example, a lot of applications will have a “pill tracker,” but not be able to track medical history even though such an application should have both. This can be especially useful for the coming group of seniors in the baby boom generation. Yes, I have used several medical tracking applications, none of them are very good to be honest with you.