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by brandonb 8y ago
Good point. We're in San Francisco, and yeah, we should add a hiring page. :)
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by brandonb 8y ago
I'd love to open a second office one day. I'm from Seattle and my co-founder is from Vancouver, so the Pacific Northwest is a natural choice. Right now we're 10 people, so a second office isn't imminent, but we're d
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by brandonb 8y ago
For the Cardiogram app, most of the UI is developed in React, Redux, and D3 (for interactive charts). For functionality that needs to be native--for example, integrating with the Health app or Google Fit--we use Swift (for both iOS and watc
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by brandonb 8y ago
For what it's worth, United Healthcare's Motion program supports Fitbit, Garmin, Samsung, Apple Watch, and more: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/unitedhealthcare-adds... UHC is the U.S.'s larges
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by brandonb 8y ago
If you're an engineer who wants to make the vision Steve paints into a reality--but for everybody, not just for Apple Watch owners--I'd love to talk with you. I'm a co-founder at Cardiogram. In multiple N=14,011 studies with
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by brandonb 8y ago
Let me know if anybody here has questions!
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New data shows wearables are no longer just for the worried well(blog.cardiogr.am)
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They invested in my first company, which went through YC's S11 batch.
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Garry, Alexis, and the team at Initialized are the real deal. In a world where most investors' first question is, "Who else is in?", the hardest thing for a raw startup to find is someone with the conviction to write the firs
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by brandonb 9y ago
Hi all! I'm a co-founder at Cardiogram and a co-author on this study -- please let me know if you have any questions.
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The Affordable Care Act, and most replacement bills proposed over the last year, protects you from this type of discrimination. Health insurers can't deny you coverage or raise prices due to any pre-existing health condition. By law, a
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Andreessen Horowitz has a new, $450M bio fund(techcrunch.com)
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80% of people with sleep apnea don't know they have it. Unfortunately, the signs are not obvious to most.
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The 70% of people were aware—they enrolled in an IRB-approved study with UCSF Health eHeart Study, and went through an explicit informed consent process (as medical research generally requires). We wrote a bit more about the end goal in the
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by brandonb 9y ago
Yes. Apple Watch takes measurements every five minutes (no RR intervals yet). There are a few popular watches, like Garmin, that do support RR intervals.
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I have a lot of friends who love the Steel! Cardiogram is compatible with Apple Watch, and launched for Android Wear in October: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardiogram/id1000017994?ls=1... https:/&#
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by brandonb 9y ago
(I'm a study author and worked on HealthCare.gov rescue team) The good news is you're protected by the law. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers can only vary your rate based on your age, location, and whether you smoke. They c
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by brandonb 9y ago
It's a little more nuanced—the exact next step depends on the health condition, co-morbidities, previous tests you've taken, which interventions are covered by your insurance, etc. Think this diagram of how Slack decides to send
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by brandonb 9y ago
Yep—this is a good sketch of a randomized control trial to measure the primary outcome, change in diagnosis rate. Secondary outcomes you might look at are overall change in medical spend, e.g., is this intervention cost-saving, or at least
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by brandonb 9y ago
It'll appear directly in the Cardiogram app. (Would you personally find it helpful to have another mechanism, like a mailing list?)
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The accuracies quoted here are c-statistics, or area under the ROC curve. An example operating point for sleep apnea is 97% specificity with a sensitivity of 52% (compared to a 20% diagnosis rate in today's healthcare system). If a spe
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by brandonb 9y ago
That's correct. More from our investors: https://a16z.com/2016/10/20/cardiogram/ https://homebrewvc.tumblr.com/post/152080260668/your-heart-beats-102000-times-a-day-car
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by brandonb 9y ago
Good question—this clinical validation study is a first, necessary step to prove that this technology is accurate enough to be used in a real-world setting, but the research study alone is a milestone rather than the end goal. We're no
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Correct -- the abstract will be included in a special issue of Circulation: http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/136/Suppl_1/A21042 The study was presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific S
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by brandonb 9y ago
I'm one of the co-founders of Cardiogram and involved in this study -- happy to answer questions if folks have them! (EDIT: heading to bed, but will answer questions in the morning!)
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AI can help Apple Watch predict high blood pressure, sleep apnea(wired.com)
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Weak Supervision: The New Programming Paradigm for Machine Learning(dawn.cs.stanford.edu)
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If you don't want to wait, we launched a study with UCSF Cardiology which showed 97% accuracy at detecting atrial fibrillation in May: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardiogram/id1000017994?ls=1... cnbc
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Atrial fibrillation and optical heart rate sensors(blog.cardiogr.am)
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Meet Fitbit’s newest device, the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch(arstechnica.com)
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