DataDrivenMD

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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
The challenge to building a screening app is that there is no universal screening criteria (more on this in a bit). Moreover, the criteria has been changing by the day. For this MVP, we decided to stop chasing a moving target. We did the ne
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
Yes - all over the place. That was the biggest challenge: sourcing and validating the data. It's also why this is and will continue to be a work in progress: the situation on the ground is dynamic. We need help sourcing and validating
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
Short answer: they have all been bottlenecks thus far. In fact, that's a big reason why testing hasn't improved as rapidly as everyone hoped it would. The biggest bottleneck now is dwindling supplies of personal protective equipme
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
Yes - Houston data will be coming soon. It took extra effort to figure out how testing was being coordinated among the TMC hospitals and their community-based partners. Stay tuned for updates - we are pushing data out regularly from this po
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
Appreciate the slow clap - would love your help. See Andrew's note to learn about ways to help.
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
Also want to share that you're not imagining things: best we can tell, those living in Georgia have very few options beyond their health department. Even Emory is limited in its capacity - last I heard they were hoping to be able to ge
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by DataDrivenMD 6y ago
We were careful not to assume that all public health departments would engage in testing. We manually verified the information, and for those public health agencies that explicitly indicated on their websites or through direct channels that
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Well put. We’re working on the testing site locator right now. We’ve gathered contact info for 3500+ public health agencies, plus starting to add info for urgent care facilities, health systems, community hospitals, and academic health cent
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Not being intimately familiar with the limitations of Kalman filters, how susceptible to bias is this approach when hidden states exist? In the case of COVID-19, the asymptomatic cases may be modeled as such, or not, depending on the approa
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
This reminds me of the time I spent at the NIH conducting research on cancer vaccines. After lots of trial and error, I had finally found something that seemed to prevent lung cancer in mice. I rushed to show my PI the results. He listened
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
I want to help. I had posted something here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577611 But will support any effort so long as we get it done. I can help from the medical and the technical side of things. What’s the best
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
> That seems like a harder problem because of patient privacy issues. Agreed, but even a simple honor system would be better than the current situation. Perhaps verified via a simple browser-based cookie? Separately: just dawned on me
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
I posted the call to action here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577611 There was a word limit, so I had to comment on my own post to share full details. Sorry, not sorry HN mods ;-)
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
If we break down the challenge, we can start having an immediate impact. Here’s how: - Now: there's an immediate need for a single source of truth for all the locations where COVID-19 testing is available. Trump recently said that Goog
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Ask HN: Can we build an open source platform that helps COVID-19 patients?
14 points by DataDrivenMD 7y ago|3 comments
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Sweet. Looked into the KWA's site, seems like a clear use-case. If we were to break down the build into achievable chunks we may have more success, and have a bigger impact along the way. There's an immediate need for a single sou
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Have you considered the Almond integration for Home Assistant? ( https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/almond/ ) Alternatively, you could just fork the Almond project directly and take it from there: https:&#x
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
You raise a related issue, which is critical to address as well. That is, we need people to help manage patients before, during, and after their hospital stay. I’m less concerned about the licensing issues because public health emergency de
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
As an anesthesiologist and hacker, I love the enthusiasm here. I’m less concerned about the hospital use-case. It would be helpful to crowdsource solutions to address the need for ventilators after patients leave the ICU. Based on current
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Anesthesiologist here: yes and no. It depends on whether the patient is having difficulty clearing CO2, in which case ventilation is more important. If the patient’s lungs are unable to extract sufficient oxygen from the air such that the b
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Anesthesiologist here - sedation is ideal for managing patients in respiratory failure, though volatile anesthesia is not commonly used in an ICU setting (at least not in the US). It is more common to use IV drugs such as dexmedetomidine, f
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
Anesthesiologist here - true, I was a Stanford medical student on an ICU rotation when a Tesla employee crashed his plane into high voltage power lines while attempting to land at San Carlos airport. Electrical power on the peninsula was ou
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Evidence indicates potential for fecal-oral transmission of Covid-19(gastrojournal.org)
2 points by DataDrivenMD 7y ago|0 comments
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NBA suspends season over coronavirus concerns(marketwatch.com)
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Coachella postponed due to concerns over Covid-19(nytimes.com)
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
As with any statistical analysis based on a sample of the total population, there will be biases (as many have already noted). That being said, these results reflect what we’ve seen in the real world in places like Washington state, Italy,
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
To be clear: I wasn’t making a political point. Just trying to offer an explanation as to why the numbers differ from those that we’re getting from other sources. The AHA has a history of making contributions to both parties. If my hunch is
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
"The American Hospital Association said the webinar reflected the views of the experts who spoke during it, not its own." This seems like they're trying to distance themselves from the content, which is odd. The AHA is huge i
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
The best and closest to what you’re looking for comes from Johns Hopkins: - https://data.humdata.org/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov... The GitHub repo with datasets: - https://github.com/CSSEGISand
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by DataDrivenMD 7y ago
It’s possible to contain a small outbreak, much more difficult to contain a large one. Think of it like a California brush fire: - If someone is witness to the start of the fire, they’re going to call the fire department who will mobilize a

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