Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
by tpainton on Sunday September 08, 2013 @09:14AM
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As a physician of 15 years in internal medicine all I have to say is residency must have become ridiculously easy if you have time to start a company.. For me, 100 hours a week made that impossible so I waited until I was done. Your idea is an old one. It's been deliberated and contemplated. You forget that you're writing code that is essentially a medical tool that potentially affects peoples lives. You will need massive insurance, and lots of regulations to contend with. You will take on all liability with regard to patient outcomes. In the end, it will cost you 10x more than 500 a week. I don't even consider healthcare with my coding projects.
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Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
by arbuge on Sunday September 08, 2013 @09:40AM
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I would think automating it would vastly reduce the likelihood of error vs. manual entry.
Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
by jtheory on Sunday September 08, 2013 @10:54AM
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It's a different type of error that's possible, though.
Manual entry errors happen at predictable rates, and with good processes you can get them down quite low.
Software error rates are not so predictable (unless you have full control over all variables... and that's surprisingly hard to get). You could deploy this software in the context of a slightly different version of the radiology software which used a different font in PDFs (or whatever) and find that all 8's are now read as 3's; no human would do that.
If a human started getting input that wasn't sufficiently readable, they'd talk to someone about it. Could the software do that?
Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
by lostlogin on Monday September 09, 2013 @02:52AM
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I know one registrar who built his house while doing the program. I know another who got a few medals sailing whilst doing his etc etc. I'm not sure that you can generalize about how much time people have.