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Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine by xapata on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:13AM (#17123870)
Exactly, enabling the market to be controlled by a handful of large corporations, which has some negative consequences for patients (in addition to the benefits of technology).

Just consider all the conversations people have about Google. Life is just so much better with Google Search and YouTube -- learning things is so easy now. Yet, there are some nagging doubts about what we gave up to have that access to information.

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Re:What we lose with data-driven medicine by nickthemagicman on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:59AM (#17144012)
It could go numerous ways. It could be centralized, it could be a bunch of contractors working for a large corporation like uber health, or technology could do what it did for the record industry and enable the small provider.
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