cmonsen

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Technological revolution in health care(craigmonsen.com)
1 points by cmonsen 9y ago|0 comments
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by cmonsen 10y ago
Got around to reading the primary source. I am surprised there isn't more skepticism from this group, but it may have to do with not having time to read the paper. A few reasons to be skeptical of the results (some are stronger than ot
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Seeking a diagnosis on the Internet: survey results(craigmonsen.com)
1 points by cmonsen 11y ago|0 comments
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Magic Numbers for Startups(blog.symcat.com)
2 points by cmonsen 12y ago|0 comments
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by cmonsen 13y ago
Completely agree with reproducibility of research. Would be great to further improve such algorithms using data collected from the public--selection issues and inaccuracies aside. The algorithm is in the appendix of the article the tool lin
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by cmonsen 13y ago
Glad you found it useful. Stay tuned for similar tools.
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ShowHN: Should you be on a statin?(cvriskcalculator.com)
2 points by cmonsen 13y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of the "A-ha" Moment(blog.symcat.com)
1 points by cmonsen 13y ago|0 comments
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What does the Massive Health acquisition mean?
1 points by cmonsen 14y ago|0 comments
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by cmonsen 14y ago
Definitely. But with still mostly paper recording, limited data standards, and particularly onerous privacy requirements (justifiably so), it is not a foregone conclusion that the big data trend will impact medicine anytime soon.
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How will big data impact Medicine?(blog.symcat.com)
10 points by cmonsen 14y ago|2 comments
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Blueprint Health Startup Accelerator. Was it worth it?(blog.symcat.com)
1 points by cmonsen 14y ago|0 comments
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Privacy policy posted. It's in the footer of symcat.com. Thanks for your patience and let us know if you have any feedback!
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by cmonsen 15y ago
We observed that we had exact concept matches for over 2/3rds of the symptoms searched on the first try. To get the rest we are doing two things: 1. adding common queries without matches into our symptom vocab 2. improving the suggested sea
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by cmonsen 15y ago
True, but if that alone were the explanation then "shortness of breath, vomiting, and chest pain" would also be higher.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
That's true, for HIPAA compliance, there is no negotiation and we will meet that standard. But there inevitably will be some user concerns that fall outside of HIPAA compliance. So, we see HIPAA+HITECH as a minimum requirement. We don't exp
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Apologies for the oversight. Will push it out to the site today.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
I'm glad you made that point. We are very aware of how important user privacy is for this sensitive information. We want to begin the conversation with users while we're young so that we don't mess it up when we're big (a la facebook). As a
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by cmonsen 15y ago
We were getting a lot of traffic in a short amount of time that day, so the site performance was lacking. You might have better luck trying again (maybe wait a few hours until this new HN traffic dies down). I welcome the opinion of a legal
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What's ailing Hacker News?(blog.symcat.com)
90 points by cmonsen 15y ago|29 comments
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Hoo boy, thanks for catching that! Was wondering why we weren't getting any follows. Fixed now.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
I didn't know that. I have to get out (watch TV?) more. Robot battle it is, then.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Should be fixed now. Thanks!
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Agreed, and that's a very reasonable place to start for conditions that are not challenging diagnoses but rather explanations for common symptoms (eg too little sleep, bumped my knee, etc). WRT abuse, we're going to require the log-in and u
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! We are fortunate to have some great advisors including practicing physicians, medical informatics specialists, and health care entrepreneurs. We're part of Blueprint Health, a TechStars-affiliated health startup
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by cmonsen 15y ago
I'm sorry if it is abusive. That was not my intention. It is not unusual for founders to post to HN.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
We'd love to incorporate a DXPlain or QMR as a starting point, but the true value of this is in learning from additional use/data.
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by cmonsen 15y ago
The evidence suggests that 15% of medical diagnoses are incorrect. Being 2 months away from finishing my MD, I have a sense that this is not because doctors are failing to do their job, but rather, because medical diagnosis is hard. Most pe
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Thanks! Honestly, Google. We need to make sure that it is easily indexed and understood by crawlers. Some med students have found it useful though. Will fix it, thanks!
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by cmonsen 15y ago
Haha. My co-founder and I went back and forth about the right message for our HN title. I completely agree with you but he won the argument. Does anyone know of a good A/B testing site for HN titles? ;)

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