Re:Pandemic Ventilator Project
by DataDrivenMD on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:20PM
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> That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues.
Agreed, but even a simple honor system would be better than the current situation. Perhaps verified via a simple browser-based cookie?
Separately: just dawned on me that HN has no obvious way for users to communicate directly. Any suggestions on how to share contact info without begging for spam/bots?
Re:Pandemic Ventilator Project
by DataDrivenMD on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:57PM
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I posted the call to action here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577611
There was a word limit, so I had to comment on my own post to share full details. Sorry, not sorry HN mods ;-)
Seems like that could be achieved with a static HTML website, possibly augmented with a REST API.
I doubt that information is changing very quickly. It could theoretically even be committed to a Git repo in a CSV file. However, although that would work for generating a website, it wouldn't be clone-able. So perhaps consider some canonical datastore in the cloud somewhere.
Also: I propose Apache/MIT licensing to minimize the friction of collaboration with both commercial entities and charities.
Technology wise, I don't care: it should just be something mainstream, popular and easy.
> Moreover, there's no way for anybody to know how many people have actually been tested, because the same person can be tested multiple times.
That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues.