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This shows some of the potential of health-related data-collection everywhere, and cross-referencing it with time and geography (among other dimensions). It is
by stareatgoats 7y ago
This shows some of the potential of health-related data-collection everywhere, and cross-referencing it with time and geography (among other dimensions). It is obviously already happening, but these types of overviews are largely kept behind closed doors as of yet. Releasing the data in such an easy digestible manner would democratize the knowledge and enable crowd-sourcing of solutions.
The technical issues are solved, and there are only 4 main hurdles IMO: 1. privacy, 2. data is privately owned (it costs to have it released), 3. professional gate keeping and 4. that governments are not yet tasked with addressing the problem. Surely all of these can be overcome, with various multi-pronged approaches.
- mvcalder 7y agoI just listened to a recent episode of 99% Invisible: The Weather Machine and I'm struck by the similarities. In the podcast they discuss the evolution of the data sharing agreements to do weather prediction and the birth of the idea that with that data weather was predictable. Your list of 4 could have been lifted right from that episode about weather. So, someday maybe!
- raxxorrax 7y agoAs long as I don't have to take part, it could surely help. But I don't want to task my government to collect health data. Personally, I prefer to keep it between my doctor and myself without anyone knowing about it. Because having the information out there are too many negative external factors. And health data is pretty hard to anonymize.