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Sadly, this would be illegal in the USA and get shut down pretty quickly.
by transfire 4y ago
Sadly, this would be illegal in the USA and get shut down pretty quickly.
- giantg2 4y agoMore like a patent holder would usurp all the work someone else did and make a fortune off of it after taking 5 years to get through the red tape.
- markus92 4y agoNa, this is all well-known work. This field is seriously big, lots of publications on it dating back to the early '90s.
- renewiltord 4y agounlessI'm wrong, he's in Michigan.
- charia 4y agoOP is probably talking about the legality of American hospitals using this software in an official capacity like some Chinese hospitals seem to be doing. I'm completely unfamiliar, but it wouldn't surprise me if for diagnosing? software like this to be used in an official medical capacity in America it would need to go through some sort of particular vetting process because if it isn't it might leave hospitals who use it open to lawsuits.
- caycep 4y agothat would be a potential YC idea. A company that enables smaller groups to do clinical research w/o needing an army of people to wade through the regulatory red tape. That also isn't in and of itself a giant predatory CRO type organization.
- dekhn 4y agothat's literally what pharma is now- companies that exist to help smaller groups get their research through the clinical and approval process. It would be hard to buidl that level of expertise in a smaller company.
- codingdave 4y agoWhat exactly is illegal about this? If you are thinking HIPAA laws, they don't apply when you are sharing your own medical information/images.
- dekhn 4y agoThis is a regulated industry. If you don't jump through the necessary hoops, the US government will shut you down and there are many laws on the books they can use for this. There are many laws beyond HIPAA (which exists to make it easier to share data, not harder) which apply.
- codingdave 4y agoWe may be talking about different things - I was referring to writing the software and having people upload their own data to it. You guys must be referring to more formal usage in the healthcare industry.
- dekhn 4y agowho operates the servers for the software? Each individual at home is going to have a machine that does inference on their own images?
- Flankk 4y agoThe FDA may or may not attempt to classify it as a medical device and then shut it down. Otherwise legal if it includes a disclaimer.