Re:Bay Area Doctors Quit Medicine to Work for Digital Health...
by noname123 on Saturday July 18, 2015 @02:03PM
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IMHO, a trained professional who can effectively diagnose and treat someone's medical condition, from something serious like cancer to minor like skin rash made a bigger difference in that person's life than someone who improved seconds off that person's "e-commerce checkout funnel" or delivered more "personal targeted ads" or even more improved "electronic medical patient records retrieval and storage" for that matter.
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Re:Bay Area Doctors Quit Medicine to Work for Digital Health...
by sjg007 on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:46PM
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You should measure this statistically in terms of lives impacted. For instance, a service matching patients to clinical trials could have a massive impact. Ad tech that connects donors to allow free delivery of clean water. It's a false dichotomy to say such work is not impactful.
Good, intuitive portable emergency records would save millions of lives. Checklists (as pioneered by airlines) save lives in medicine. Is a good collaborative checklist technology not up to this standard?