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I'm working at a health care startup whose business model is to work closely with at risk folks and help them avoid (expensive) emergency room visits. Since we
by twelfthnight 4y ago
I'm working at a health care startup whose business model is to work closely with at risk folks and help them avoid (expensive) emergency room visits. Since we don't have a lot of our own data, we need access to models pretrained on millions of patients to help us automate processes like discovering people with illnesses they haven't received treatment for yet. Unfortunately, these models are always licensed. So anyone with money can get them, but not smaller entities like small companies and hospitals. I think there must be a way to make this sort of anonymous data/model weights public and available to businesses in addition to research (researches can sometimes get data, but often are restricted from releasing models). Kind of like how MIT licenses wind up usually more beneficial to society than GPL.
There is some risk to privacy, but I think the "risk of privacy" is used more as a way to justify charging money for data rather than a true concern over privacy/ public safety.