you don't always have to create apps
from the ground up sometimes you can
build off of technologies that already
exist here's how to find app ideas that
leverage third-party integrations my
name is Dale Richards I'm a software
product innovator in Salt Lake City Utah
and I love building software that
changes the world okay in the last video
we were exploring some interesting app
ideas related to dental practice
management so things like insurance
claims and marketing and finding an
administrative staff so that got me
thinking I wonder if there are
third-party tools out there that have
what we call an exposed API or an
application programming interface that
we can use to build new tools for dental
office managers just so you know the
term API stands for application
programming interface and what it's like
it's kind of like a touch point between
one system and another system a lot of
companies will put their API out there
and make them available for other
developers to access here's what we're
gonna do we're gonna search for dental
insurance API the first result here is
called wonderful dental insurance
eligibility API that's interesting
what's their main value proposition get
a patient's dental insurance status and
detailed benefit information from over
two hundred forty dental insurances
within seconds so that's cool it sounds
like they have access to lots of
different dental insurance providers and
they can what kind of push data to them
and pull data from them so let's explore
the site a little bit more to find out
what they can offer us all right why
wonderful you can use it to verify
insurance in real time when confirming
patient appointments you can provide
insurance context in automated recalls
and properly estimate insurance coverage
when billing patients let's look at the
documentation itself now API
documentation is really written for the
developer in most cases and so sometimes
API documentation can be really
technical so you kind of have to learn
how to read through it and find the most
valuable information it's a company that
has a third party API is courteous
they'll also put some language in there
API documentation that a business user
can understand and that's me I'm not you
know that technical and I don't like
reading technical stuff
so it looks like they have this
eligibility endpoint so they want to be
able to say hey wonderful tell me if
this patient is eligible for insurance
benefits so you can basically say here's
the patient and get the information and
the eligibility back then they offer
this eligibility payer list so it looks
like these are all the insurance
companies that wonderful has already
integrated with very cool there's a lot
of them right over 250 and these are big
names so that's exciting the eligibility
request so they kind of go into fields
you have to send and receive etc so
basically you know you need to know the
name the social of that person things
like that now this is really awesome
wonderful has really well-developed API
documentation I have worked with API is
in the past that had almost no
documentation so the fact that wonderful
has this information available means
that they really want to work with you
and have you integrate with them so
let's look at this first this first
question in the FAQ why should i
integrate Wonderful's verification API
and thanks to them again they've got a
degeneres explenation and a developer's
explanation so one thing that jumped out
to me is this statement right here many
of our clients software companies come
to us because their partner dental
offices spend way too much time
bla bla bla bla okay so their clients
are software companies so these are most
likely existing dental practice
management solutions so the trick here
is going to be to say how can we
leverage this API to either accomplish
something new that nobody else is doing
or how can we find a dental practice
management solution where we can bridge
some kind of gap and what that gap is
isn't that clear yet so I've added an
item to the idea log called predictive
dental insurance verification so
basically the concept here is that we
verify the patient's insurance we
provide insight into working with that
specific insurance carrier the problem
or opportunity statement here is that
the billing specialist can't see online
reviews or complaints or really see any
kind of likeliness of the insurance
carrier to pay they don't know what to
expect in terms of claim processing time
the user persona here is the
dental billing administrator in a dental
practice earning more than 1.5 million
dollars per year all right there you go
new idea really simple I've gotten it
from just searching for dental insurance
API I found a third party API from
wonderful I read a little bit about them
I've come up with a lead on what we
could do to create our own product and
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