Inside this Book – One hot summer day a few years ago, Steve Hau and his start-up team arrived at my room in the Four Seasons hotel in Boston. Steve wore that hungry, desperate look that says “I need money now.” After little introduction, Steve began his laptop presentation as I leaned back in my chair. Steve outlined the vision that he had dropped out of a Harvard Ph.D. program to pursue: “Clinicians don’t really have access to information. For example, doctors are still using index cards to capture inpatient billing charges, i.e., the hospital’s most precious financial information! A week or two later, those doctors submit the cards to accounting,” he explained. “Some 3 to 7 percent get lost, the rest are entered into a mainframe by a pool of error-prone clerks.” Instead Steve wanted the doctors to carry handheld computers (like Palm Pilots) with his team’s enterprise- enabled software, enter the charge on the Palm, then place the handheld on an electronic synchronization cradle to automatically send the data to the mainframe.
- Full Book Name – Smartups
- Author of this Book – Rob Ryan
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Business
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 3 MB
- eBook Pages – 240
Smartups by Rob Ryan PDF eBook
- Inside this Book – One hot summer day a few years ago, Steve Hau and his start-up team arrived at my room in the Four Seasons hotel in Boston. Steve wore that hungry, desperate look that says “I need money now.” After little introduction, Steve began his laptop presentation as I leaned back in my chair. Steve outlined the vision that he had dropped out of a Harvard Ph.D. program to pursue: “Clinicians don’t really have access to information. For example, doctors are still using index cards to capture inpatient billing charges, i.e., the hospital’s most precious financial information! A week or two later, those doctors submit the cards to accounting,” he explained. “Some 3 to 7 percent get lost, the rest are entered into a mainframe by a pool of error-prone clerks.” Instead Steve wanted the doctors to carry handheld computers (like Palm Pilots) with his team’s enterprise- enabled software, enter the charge on the Palm, then place the handheld on an electronic synchronization cradle to automatically send the data to the mainframe.
- Full Book Name – Smartups
- Author of this Book – Rob Ryan
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Business
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 3 MB
- eBook Pages – 240
