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> I've long believed that once startups and tech companies get their hands on medical data Honestly I think the last people that are going to improve anything

by hannob 7y ago

> I've long believed that once startups and tech companies get their hands on medical data Honestly I think the last people that are going to improve anything in medicine are startups and tech companies. Quite the contrary. I know that quite a few people in evidence-based medicine are worried that Tech people who want to "disrupt" things come with their own poor scientific standards to undermine the minimum standards this field has (and has fought hard for to get).

wolco 7y ago
We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available. Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where photos are being read more accurately and quickly compared to manual processes. Medicine now resolves around tests. Those can be improved and automated. We will see tools that will empower personal medicine and shift the power balance away from the family clinics.
- neural_thing 7y ago
  To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
  - wolco 7y ago
    ubiome is a ycombinator company. Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
    - detaro 7y ago
      They've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ... That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...
    - baby 7y ago
      You'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.
- scarface74 7y ago
  23andme has been found to be highly inaccurate. https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...

by hannob 7y ago

wolco 7y ago

We've started with ubiome/23andme providing customers data previously not available. Another area is improving existing processes. We see techniques where photos are being read more accurately and quickly compared to manual processes. Medicine now resolves around tests. Those can be improved and automated. We will see tools that will empower personal medicine and shift the power balance away from the family clinics.

neural_thing 7y ago
To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
- wolco 7y ago
  ubiome is a ycombinator company. Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
  - detaro 7y ago
    They've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ... That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...
  - baby 7y ago
    You'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.
scarface74 7y ago
23andme has been found to be highly inaccurate. https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-explained.html https://www.livescience.com/63997-dna-ancestry-test-results-...