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0 pointsnickthemagicman8y ago0 comments

I use the same technology for my personal projects (AWS, Rails, C#) that my company does for it's enterprise projects.

My social worker friend already uses a SaaS for his billing and patient management.

I think technology will massively enable solo practitioners.

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xapata8y ago· 2 in thread

Ask a medical doctor or dentist how much they pay for the various technology they use in their office. Even electronic medical records, as useful as they are, will have some negative effects for patients via the economics of medicine. EMRs are net positive, of course.

Perhaps some day, the medical field will experience the same boom in open source and inexpensive services. That day ain't tomorrow.

nickthemagicmanOP8y ago

I don't trust physicians or dentists opinions on this subject, because they have a vested interest in preventing technology from disrupting their field.

Its better to be the oracle with the Tea Leaves garnering the accompanying salaries and status.

>> Perhaps some day, the medical field will experience the same boom in open source and inexpensive services. That day ain't tomorrow.

You're right it's today. There's a bunch of HIPPA compliant, reasonably priced SaaS's available to do just this. Google it.

The obstacle lies in getting medical professionals to give their status, cush jobs, and money over to a machine for the betterment of patients and the field, which is going to be a hard won battle.

I for one can't wait until a nurse with good beside manner takes my samples and symptoms, sends them to a lab/records them in an EHR, and a machine with zettabytes of data and years of machine learning diagnosis me with more accuracy than a human ever could imagine.

xapata8y ago

> I don't trust physicians or dentists opinions on this subject, because they have a vested interest in preventing technology from disrupting their field.

You don't need to trust, but only use a little logic. Would a doctor prefer to reduce expenses and increase profits? Of course there's some interest in preserving status quo, but as that "Cult of the Root Cause" [0] article pointed out, there can be many system dynamics working simultaneously.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109114

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