Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Healthcare

The Comp Specialists, LLC

A physician's treatment pathways existed only as Visio drawings. Built the business that sells them — and the serial-number scheme that made the IP sellable at all.

Years
2009–2011
Sector
Workers' compensation
Role
Interim CTO and lead architect
Outcome
Shipped

What was wrong

A physician had spent years drawing graphical treatment pathways — one flowchart per work-injury diagnosis, keyed to ICD-9 codes, covering every step a doctor must take and document to stay compliant and actually get paid. The intellectual property existed only as Visio drawings and PDFs, with no way to sell it that did not also give it away.

What I built

A subscription site where a doctor's office or insurance payer registers, searches for a pathway, enters patient details, and the system merges them into the pathway and the matching medical-director letter, charges the account per print, and prints the stamped result. Every printed pathway carries a serial number encoding account, user, pathway and print run, so a third party can verify that a copy in circulation is genuine.

What happened

Live and taking paying provider and payer accounts on schedule. I wrote the release policy the day customers arrived.

Stack

Silverlight .NET ASP.NET SQL Server Visio XPS Authorize.Net Drupal
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Have a system like this one?

Tell me what it does, what it is written in, and what breaks when it goes down. I will say plainly whether I can help.

Tell me what it runs on