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How much are you willing to pay for a full check-up of your health

Hi! My name is Sergey, I am the founder of a startup "Gas Analytics". Our team invented the newest instrument based on diode laser spectroscopy. According to your exhalation, the AI of our device will be able to determine diseases such as cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia, gastritis and many others. Now we are collecting information on how much an ordinary person in USA is willing to spend time and money on a full medical examination. Thanks in advance for your time!

lialexander13 7y ago
$30
ahupp 7y ago
That's hard to answer without knowing how much disease coverage you actually have. A test that reliably detected cancers early would be worth quite a bit to me.
- SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
  Gastrointestinal upset,Anemia,respiratory tract infection,asthma,rhinitis,digestive cancer,sepsis,renal failure,lung cancer,acute myocardial infarction,heart failure,Breast cancer schizophrenia,diabetes,gastritis. The number of investigated diseases will be increased during R&D
  - buffaloo 7y ago
    If the cancer screening catches it early enough to do some good, that has value. But don’t everyone already know if they have an upset stomach, heart failure, etc.? I don’t see the value in an app telling me I a) have gas or b) I’m dead.
Khelavaster 7y ago
Just depends on how reliable your results are.
- SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
  accuracy is 90 percent
  - Someone 7y ago
    That feels too low to me to be practically useful. I would guess declaring all your patients to be healthy already gets you there for many, if not most, conditions you mention in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752782. It also seems to imply that you will have many false positives, where people will unnecessarily get stressed while waiting for follow-up tests or even receive treatments they don’t need.
    - SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
      it must be taken into account that there will be no blood sampling, and a preliminary diagnosis will be made on one exhalation. And the price of the analysis will be quite low. Do you really consider it a bad result that today, 9 out of 10 people will be able to know exactly about the presence of cancer by taking 5 minutes of their time?
      - Someone 7y ago
        As I said, one likely can do better in one second, by telling everyone they’re healthy. If five out of a hundred people have a disease, you even can get 90% accuracy by declaring those five healthy and five others unhealthy. Accuracy is fairly meaningless for this kind of thing. What sensitivity and specificity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity) will these tests have?

lialexander13 7y ago

$30

ahupp 7y ago

That's hard to answer without knowing how much disease coverage you actually have. A test that reliably detected cancers early would be worth quite a bit to me.

SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
Gastrointestinal upset,Anemia,respiratory tract infection,asthma,rhinitis,digestive cancer,sepsis,renal failure,lung cancer,acute myocardial infarction,heart failure,Breast cancer schizophrenia,diabetes,gastritis. The number of investigated diseases will be increased during R&D
- buffaloo 7y ago
  If the cancer screening catches it early enough to do some good, that has value. But don’t everyone already know if they have an upset stomach, heart failure, etc.? I don’t see the value in an app telling me I a) have gas or b) I’m dead.

Khelavaster 7y ago

Just depends on how reliable your results are.

SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
accuracy is 90 percent
- Someone 7y ago
  That feels too low to me to be practically useful. I would guess declaring all your patients to be healthy already gets you there for many, if not most, conditions you mention in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20752782. It also seems to imply that you will have many false positives, where people will unnecessarily get stressed while waiting for follow-up tests or even receive treatments they don’t need.
  - SergeyDavydovGA 7y ago
    it must be taken into account that there will be no blood sampling, and a preliminary diagnosis will be made on one exhalation. And the price of the analysis will be quite low. Do you really consider it a bad result that today, 9 out of 10 people will be able to know exactly about the presence of cancer by taking 5 minutes of their time?
    - Someone 7y ago
      As I said, one likely can do better in one second, by telling everyone they’re healthy. If five out of a hundred people have a disease, you even can get 90% accuracy by declaring those five healthy and five others unhealthy. Accuracy is fairly meaningless for this kind of thing. What sensitivity and specificity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity) will these tests have?