Comment by cadamsdotcom
3 days ago
Your competition is a floor plan printed and stuck to the wall.
(Paper maps are a legal requirement - fire escape plans are handy to navigate in a pinch)
3 days ago
Your competition is a floor plan printed and stuck to the wall.
(Paper maps are a legal requirement - fire escape plans are handy to navigate in a pinch)
Credentials be damned - that's not the point. When you say "blind people will just get directions from the front desk"
You need to really understand - that isn't what they want. Same for anybody else that has what is commonly referred to as a disability (which I and many others call superpowers)
Do you know what these people want (and deserve)? Independence.
With independence, comes dignity. The feeling of having to rely on others just to exist is a tough pill to swallow for many - it's why I made this tech MIT open source.
Would be happy if people forked it and went off and helped people gain a bit more independence and dignity in their life.
The average hospital by my estimates can increase their bottomline by a half million in MIPS incentives alone - solutions like this pay for themselves - especially when there is literally no upfront investment for the health system.
But, more important than the money, is giving their patients with superpowers their independence. Period.
That's why I built this (and made it free to license)
My competition is not a paper map because people who are blind cannot see a paper map.
Are those fire escape plans printed in multiple languages for the amount of people who show up to a hospital and do not speak english?
Why is it that the healthcare industry is losing so much money in staff hours to manual wayfinding assistance and it's a known problem?
Did you know that indoor navigation assistance qualifies now as patient experience improvements - meaning hospitals actually MAKE money by improving wayfinding within the facility?
Rather naive take you have...
People who are blind ask for directions at the front desk.
Paper maps are made of lines and boxes, and rooms & wards are generally numbers and letters.
Further, any hospital in a multi-lingual area will ensure they provide service in the languages they expect people to speak. For everyone else there’s family members to do the visit with.
Is the healthcare industry really losing money?
Is it losing enough money to sit through an explanation of Solana?
Which part of the industry do you refer to?
How many stakeholders have you spoken to?
Do you come from an enterprise sales background?
Have you sold things into large enterprises before?
Have you sold things into large enterprises operating under strict regulations where your solution must coexist with decades of legacy iteration?
Sorry to be an ass, but, I only want to spare you the 2-3 years you’re about to sink chasing this.
I worked in healthcare directly with CXOs for 15 years - the entire industry is moving towards tokenizing everything. In 15 years, I never saw a paper map handed out, not once.
My entire job was to work with the GPOs to align vendor contracts on device sales
The indoor navigation industry sits presently at approximately $22B TAM, per Grand View research it is to reach $174B TAM by 2030.
Wayfinding solutions increases patient experience, this directly increases HCPCS scores. That translates directly into the federal MIPS program (Merit Incentive Payment System) which directly correlates to increased reimbursements from Medicare.
If you increase patient experience scores, it makes the bondholders a bit more likely to offer favorable credit terms.
Sorry to be an ass - but you have no freaking clue what you are talking about and perhaps you should stay in your lane
Edit: And yes, the healthcare industry has been losing money hand over fist for decades - this is not true of device and pharm manufacturers, but for your average community hospital, they are barely scraping by
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Do you have any idea how many hospitals went bankrupt last year? How many frontline healthcare workers lost their jobs?
Isn't HN supposed to be a place for serious discussion about tech?
Imagine if Google said - Well, people have Rand McNally Atlas' so I guess the market is spoken for... Lol