We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available.
Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where photos are being read more accurately and quickly compared to manual processes.
Medicine now resolves around tests. Those can be improved and automated.
We will see tools that will empower personal medicine and shift the power balance away from the family clinics.
Re:A new book critiques medicine
by neural_thing on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:06PM
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To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
ubiome is a ycombinator company.
Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
They've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ...
That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...
You'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.
Re:A new book critiques medicine
by scarface74 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:53PM
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23andme has been found to be highly inaccurate.
https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...
Honestly I think the last people that are going to improve anything in medicine are startups and tech companies.
Quite the contrary. I know that quite a few people in evidence-based medicine are worried that Tech people who want to "disrupt" things come with their own poor scientific standards to undermine the minimum standards this field has (and has fought hard for to get).