Re:Launch HN: Helio Sleep (YC S21) – One-stop portal for sle...
by haswell on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:33PM
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If I want, I can get access to all sorts of things from my medical provider that I’m not qualified to interpret.
Just by connecting Apple Health to my health care system, I can see every lab result, most of which I’m not qualified to interpret.
My brother had a CT scan, and upon request, got a DVD with the scan data and a viewer for that data.
If my healthcare provider prevented me from seeing this info, I’d find another provider.
Getting back to the core question: is it surprising?
I don’t think it’d be surprising in the consumer or enterprise spaces where lock-in is a feature. But I don’t think that automatically extends to healthcare, where such restrictions are extremely problematic, and threaten my ability to get care from my provider of choice.
(And to clarify, I don’t think this is good or acceptable for consumer/enterprise products either, but the implications there are different, where I might just choose another vendor - a choice I might not have for medical devices).
Just by connecting Apple Health to my health care system, I can see every lab result, most of which I’m not qualified to interpret.
My brother had a CT scan, and upon request, got a DVD with the scan data and a viewer for that data.
If my healthcare provider prevented me from seeing this info, I’d find another provider.
Getting back to the core question: is it surprising?
I don’t think it’d be surprising in the consumer or enterprise spaces where lock-in is a feature. But I don’t think that automatically extends to healthcare, where such restrictions are extremely problematic, and threaten my ability to get care from my provider of choice.
(And to clarify, I don’t think this is good or acceptable for consumer/enterprise products either, but the implications there are different, where I might just choose another vendor - a choice I might not have for medical devices).