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It seems liability would be another reason to have a firm legal foundation. You wouldn't want to miss an edge case that results in a patient's death. If an inve
by japhyr 13y ago
It seems liability would be another reason to have a firm legal foundation. You wouldn't want to miss an edge case that results in a patient's death. If an investigation showed that your translation software made a mistake that led a doctor to make a bad decision, you'd be in a pretty ugly spot.
This is part legal, and part QA, I believe.
- akrasia 13y agoYea, this is why I didn't want to start a company in healthcare. It's ugly. I think I can avoid the whole thing by having my software just be a tool, not a final read, and doctors will still have to double check the numbers against the PDF hardcopy. It will just take 1 minute or less to glance at 10 values or so and make sure they match up compared to typing it in themselves