Ask HN: App for dental forms

Many dentists I've visited over the years enforce me to fill out a form by hand either at the time of my first appointment or fill it by hand at home and bring it along with me at the first appointment. I am trying to pursue an idea of making these forms available online so that the customer can just fill the form, make a new appointment and just visit the dentistry. This will save time of the patient and time of the dentist as well. I've asked some receptionist who work at dental offices and have found out that data provided by the new patient in hand written application format is again entered into the system either by the receptionists or someone else. It is at times entered either into the insurance form generator or just an internal DB to keep record.

I am still figuring out all the unanswered questions I have, however, the biggest question I have is: "Is it a viable idea, given the assumption that I'll be dealing with medical data?" In my opinion, I think this will require the app to be HIPAA compliant (which I don't really want to get my hands into).

Is an idea like this worth pursuing?