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What other areas need a Wufoo?

I'll tell you one right now -

HIPAA compliant Wufoo. I've got a lot of medical clients who want to have patients filling out input forms before they arrive, but storing medical data is something I won't touch with a ten foot poll.

We use and recommend Wufoo anywhere we can. If I never have to code another form it'll be too soon.

I read through the electronic portions of HIPAA a while back, and I think that if you were to install a public web server in the doctor's office, run some type of forms engine on it, and use SSL, that you could get close to satisfying the IT portion of the requirements.

I think it would also be necessary to leave the customer with written procedures for managing server access.

Clearly this is very involved and not scaleable, but if anyone here is considering setting up intake forms for a medical office, take a look at OpenEMR, they just received modular ONC certification, and are soon to get complete EHR certification [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEMR#Certification

Wow, OpenEMR is still alive? I was one of the 4 original authors as a junior in high school. Open Source for the win.

Yeah, I was involved briefly in source. You've got to have your hip-waders on.

Awesome! I took a look at the source - it's unrecognizable from what we cooked up that summer. 4 high school hackers in a basement, making an EMR system for the "CEO"'s mother who was an internal medicine doctor.

There was some really horrific things in there - this was before I knew what a JOIN was, so I'm glad some of my shame is long gone.

Still, it's awesome to see that the project is still alive.

I've done a lot of work with OpenEMR, and this explains everything. heh

Completely offtopic, but seeing dozba on HN made my day.

I'm creepin', but I usually get downvoted to hell. Surprise surprise.

HIPPA is an immensely huge opportunity. I used to work for home health company in Las Vegas coding forms for intake, hospitals, follow-ups etc. was a pain. but any business that has to routinely create forms like colleges or law firms for example could benefit from attention being focused on them. I don't know if specialization is the right answer as far as business plan wise but expanding Wufoo's current line up to handle specific industries would be ideal

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