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Ask HN: Offering a way to broadly screen patients for Covid

I am one of the founder at Luma Health (a patient communication platform). With the outbreak, we are offering a lot of our services for free (https://www.lumahealth.io/covid-19-patient-messaging) in an effort to get ahead of this disease. One of our offerings is an ability to broadly screen patients to risk stratify who might be at risk for the infection and who might be at risk for bad outcome...

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I am one of the founders at Luma Health. We may be able to help you out. We could offer app less way of following patients and getting responses from them.

Here is a short video on what is possible: https://youtu.be/escWi-ZuGRo

Re:Ask HN: Developer FB Account Disabled on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:18PM (#14646759)
Thanks. There are a ton of people having the same issue though only for their personal non-developer account. I even tried creating a FB account only and letting it sit there for a few days before making a developer account.

Ask HN: Developer FB Account Disabled

This may not be the right place for asking this but....I am not a Facebook user until I wanted to create a messaging bot. I created an account and then created a developer account. Soon there after, my account gets disabled asking me for photo and then remains disabled. It gets disabled for 'suspicious activity'. I am not interested in using FB for social purposes. My account was bare and...

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Thanks for your comments.

This was informative. My question was not so much whether this is HIPAA compliant. There are obvious problems. My question was whether people have the appetite for even wanting to book an appointment on FB. Smt88's comment on YouTube and video call says it all. My sentiments were the same.

Ask HN: Would you book an appointment with your doctor on Facebook?

If your doctor had a Facebook page, would you feel comfortable booking an appointment through a widget on their FB page? How about if they were using Messenger and you could chat with them to book an appointment? Does the convenience out weigh any concerns you may have over privacy issue? Lets assume that you would only be booking an appointment and not providing anything more than your name...

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ASK HN: Feedback on Scheduling an Appointment with Your Doc

I am looking to get some feedback on what people love and hate about scheduling an appointment online with your doctor.For context, I am one of the founders at health care startup and we are looking to build our own scheduling product (yes, yet another scheduling product!). There are a lot of services out there for online scheduling. However, there is a lot of room for improvement particularly...

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Re:Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor? on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:38PM (#11112534)
Betterdoctor.com does this to a certain extent but does not have all of the nuances mentioned above.
Re:Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor? on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:22PM (#11112411)
Not everyone is on ZocDoc and they have poor penetration in many geographies like SF area. In fact, many docs do not like ZocDoc. In addition, ZocDoc does well with smaller practices but not mid size and larger. The way health care smaller practices are going away.
Re:Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor? on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:08PM (#11106762)
Got it. Friends/family would be a great source.
Re:Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor? on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:07PM (#11106416)
Before seeing a doc, how do you figure out "Are they not terrible at their job" and "Are they remotely personable"?
Re:Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor? on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:05PM (#11106405)
That sounds interesting. Out of curiosity, what sites do you use to gather info on docs?

Ask HN: Help with Choosing a Doctor?

I am co-founder at a health care startup and and we are interested in building a service to help people find doctors. In talking to folks, we have found people value opinions of their friends and family in choosing a doctor over review websites like Yelp or HealthGrade. However, we have found some people hesitant to reach out to friends/family as it can understandably be a sensitive issue. We...

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Re:Ask HN: Would you share your health care costs? on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:00AM (#10980723)
Re:Ask HN: Would you share your health care costs? on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:56AM (#10980692)
Very true. Though, most insurance providers are starting to push more of the costs on to the consumer. For me as a consumer, it is frustrating because I already pay a lot in monthly bills and then when I see a doctor three times a year, I pay the whole cost.
Re:Ask HN: Would you share your health care costs? on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:55AM (#10980685)
Yes, that is what I am hoping to bring to light. There is no correlation between cost and quality of care. But these prices are not known to the average consumer who believes the same service costs the same no matter who you get it from.

Also, in some cases it is cheaper to not even put the cost through your insurance provider as the cash price might be cheaper.

Ask HN: Would you share your health care costs?

Only in health care can you agree to pay for a service and have no idea how much you are going to pay for it until a few weeks later when the bill hits. Would you be willing to share your health care costs anonymously? So that way, the next time you would need care, you could look it up and not be hit with a sticker shock.

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