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Initiatives like this need more love: http://www.echopen.org/ http://www.echopen.org/ Why don't have a much more active/thriving medical hackers community?
by canada_dry 7y ago
Initiatives like this need more love:
http://www.echopen.org/ http://www.echopen.org/
Why don't have a much more active/thriving medical hackers community?
- lnsru 7y agoI quickly loose an appetite to do anything in medical space due to hardcore regulation. I applied couple times at medical equipment manufacturers and I was always told, that I’ll spend at least 2 days every week documenting things for examination later. I don’t think, hackers love documentation.
- m4r35n357 7y agoI don't think dying patients love bugs, either.
- dmead 7y agodying patients want more options.
- ethanwillis 7y agoA better solution could be to let people who enjoy technical writing do technical writing.
- vorpalhex 7y agoHospitals are extremely risk adverse, any billing/invoicing is quite complicated and getting pre-certified hardware you don't have to certify yourself is expensive and challenging.
- MR4D 7y agoAnd we wonder why healthcare is so expensive in the US. Maybe it's time we reconsider some of these regulations. Medical billing sucks across the board (ask most doctors or any patient), and $5 aspirin is borderline criminal negligence.
- mariushn 7y ago> And we wonder why healthcare is so expensive in the US. Because it's a business. The purpose is revenue across the chain, not health.
- scotu 7y agouh? are you saying that where healthcare is affordable they have less strict regulations? that doesn't seem right...
- MR4D 7y agoNo. Just saying many of our regulations may not be good regulations. e.g. they could be just plain bad, or they could be poorly written, etc.
- pkaye 7y agoAre the US regulations more strict those of the EU countries?
- jimmyswimmy 7y agoThanks for that. Looking at their site their hardware appears to be extremely basic and would benefit from some additional assistance. It looks like a fun project; I've always wanted to build an ultrasound. Think I'll take a crack at making something cheap to manufacture. Of course, getting something like that certified simply sounds awful and unappealing. If it were possible to get a medical device past the FDA for noncritical use it wouldn't be so bad. But if I were to do this for sale, and use in medical environments, the effort spent on satisfying the regulatory beast is simply unappealing for something I'd be doing for free. There is a thriving medical hacker community for things like the artificial pancreas for diabetics. I think they spend a lot of time working around security features meant to defeat them.