Medical start-up Purplebinder provides referral services to patients

Now, there is a huge blind spot in the health-care system that is when patients leave the hospital or the clinic and are able to learn what they are doing and what they haven't done. A number of new digital medical start-ups are trying to solve the problem, but their efforts seem to have not been widely recognized by the industry. Declan Frye graduated from the University of Chicago's computer science department in 2010, and Joseph Flesh was a 2012 graduate who decided to fix the thorny problem. America's health-care system, which often pushes ailing patients to social security, rarely considers referrals to other health care providers. Frye and flesh start-ups are purple Binder, which has developed an app that lists all social services for users to choose from, including mental health clinics, vocational training, food rooms, reading and writing classes, etc., which now support Chicago and its environs. Some media call them the social service version of Yelp, and recently, Purple Binder, in collaboration with the Chicago Public Health department and the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, launched a new pilot project called the Closing loop, which uses a system that Scanners and tablets can be integrated to help hospitals and medical clinics identify the need to refer patients to other social care providers. In addition, patients can be used for feedback, Purple Binder will send the relevant data back to the medical system, improve patient service quality. In addition, such a process can ensure that when patients are referred, medical providers can provide them with better services, to avoid the emergency room due to unexpected situations, after all, the cost of the emergency room is very high. Purple Binder has expanded its operations beyond Chicago, helping hospitals and clinics in the Kochira Valley of California to provide referral for social services, and is collaborating with the city of Pomona to inform local residents of the social services they can use. Flesh says Purple Binder is looking for more health-care and service providers to work with, and now they've found partners in Southern California, and the start-up plans to expand its business to more cities next year. Purple Binder The current number of employees is only five people, although the company is their own self-financing, but the cash flow is good, however, Flash said they will raise a round of venture capital in 2015 to promote business in more cities in the United States. Recently, Purple Binder has joined the Chicago local medical entrepreneurship incubator matter. (Viavb, Fast carp)