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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by angrydev on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:55PM (#25828227)
> The tool should have been designed (IMO) as a consumer tool, either a kiosk at CVS/Walgreens/pharmacies to assist with OTC med selection or possibly as a website with ads/referrals.

Sure but... would you really need any clinical data to make this valuable? A pharmacy could just make a decision tree with some common symptoms and do the same thing based on their own recommendations. Including data from studies is a neat enhancement but not necessary IMO.

I think perhaps there's greater value in the platform or methodology the author built for doing this type of meta analysis for medication. Could it be applied to other research fields I wonder. Could the software be licensed?

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by eightysixfour on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:00PM (#25828268)
> A pharmacy could just make a decision tree with some common symptoms and do the same thing based on their own recommendations.

Sure, and I’d go to a pharmacy who did this based off of science instead of whoever paid for an end cap advertisement that month.

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