Ask HN: What would you build if you had access to health data?

3 pointswwyd13y ago1 comments

My company is in "health insurance" industry, and basically we have a large amount of health insurance claims data from various insurance funds.

This consists of hospitals, members, doctors, service providers and the various claims, which were made over the last couple of years.

We also have list of service providers, hospitals, doctors, members, their location, birthday etc.

If you put your developer/hacker hat on, and if this data was available to you, what kind of COOL things would you want to build? I'd love to hear some suggestions.

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mikecane13y ago

I'll tell you what the State would be interested in: Suspicious prescription activity. Unjustifiable amounts of Oxycontin prescribed by providers or gotten by individuals. You might not know how big Oxy abuse is. A pill -- one pill -- fetches $30 on the street at a minimum. I don't understand this addiction. I've had to use Oxy for pain relief and have never missed it after having the pain relieved. Anyway, this is something of interest but I don't know if you want to be in the rat business.

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