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I'm a physician and I agree. Obtaining data is the easy part, interpreting the data is the hard part. If you want solve interesting problems that's where you sh

• alexchamberlain 13y ago
  But you need the data first, where better to get it than yourself?
  • pygy_ 13y ago
    In a larger sample, but it's usually more expensive. That being said, self experimentation is fun. Very fun :-).
• Toenex 13y ago
  Yes my immediate concern was that GP clinics could be inundated with the worried well who simple couldn't tell the difference between an 8K and an 80K resistor. However, I doubt many people will actually go ahead and build one of these and, quality control aside, the article does show just how relatively simply some of these devices can be made. Generally though it does rather seem that there is going to be an increase in the amount of data that patients bring to clinic; what may appear to be little more than silly iPhone apps today might well become the important monitor tools of tomorrow. My guess is that this will create opportunities for online analysis startups to perform data triage an initial review, turning the data into something more valuable.