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You present an excellent argument! Integration of software/computing with healthcare/medicine is what I hope to focus the rest of my life on, so I surely hope

by pragone 14y ago

You present an excellent argument! Integration of software/computing with healthcare/medicine is what I hope to focus the rest of my life on, so I surely hope we can make significant progress in that area.

guylhem 14y ago
If you do get involved in such projects, let me know where a double background as a clinician and a hacker might help (and that's open for anyone in the thread!) I see many topics where a proper mix of IT and medicine could make a real difference - for example, improving WorldVista, adding IA agents to mine the data and suggest things. Then I see the sorry thing that calls itself Health-IT and which is just a new way to put government stimulus money into dull uses and overpriced software.
- dr1337 14y ago
  I'm actually involved in a project where having a hybrid background as a clinician and hacker is a synergistic advantage. I'm the founder, lead developer and clinical researcher behind StethoCloud - http://www.stethocloud.com/ http://www.stethocloud.com/ I find being a clinician helps me understand the problem when it comes to the diagnosis of pneumonia in children. I understand the scope of the problem, its current diagnostic hurdles and as a hacker, I know how to build the app and cloud backend for the project. Having exposure and knowledge in other fields of computer science, mathematics and engineering helps too. I'm glad I took the Stanford AI and Machine Learning courses that gave me a good understanding of what machine learning techniques are capable of doing given sufficient data to train on. I would say having knowledge of those fields was important in order for me to articulate the problems clinicians face with the diagnosis of pneumonia in children to data scientists in a way that they could understand how their skills could be helpful and thus convince them to help out with this project.

by pragone 14y ago

guylhem 14y ago

If you do get involved in such projects, let me know where a double background as a clinician and a hacker might help (and that's open for anyone in the thread!) I see many topics where a proper mix of IT and medicine could make a real difference - for example, improving WorldVista, adding IA agents to mine the data and suggest things. Then I see the sorry thing that calls itself Health-IT and which is just a new way to put government stimulus money into dull uses and overpriced software.

dr1337 14y ago
I'm actually involved in a project where having a hybrid background as a clinician and hacker is a synergistic advantage. I'm the founder, lead developer and clinical researcher behind StethoCloud - http://www.stethocloud.com/ http://www.stethocloud.com/ I find being a clinician helps me understand the problem when it comes to the diagnosis of pneumonia in children. I understand the scope of the problem, its current diagnostic hurdles and as a hacker, I know how to build the app and cloud backend for the project. Having exposure and knowledge in other fields of computer science, mathematics and engineering helps too. I'm glad I took the Stanford AI and Machine Learning courses that gave me a good understanding of what machine learning techniques are capable of doing given sufficient data to train on. I would say having knowledge of those fields was important in order for me to articulate the problems clinicians face with the diagnosis of pneumonia in children to data scientists in a way that they could understand how their skills could be helpful and thus convince them to help out with this project.