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by brandonb 11y ago
It's possible you saw a different company's web site--Ginkgo Bioworks is a synthetic biology company: http://ginkgobioworks.com/
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by brandonb 11y ago
One of the biggest barriers to preventative healthcare is that it doesn't pay -- at least not quickly enough to make business sense for an insurer. There's a famous paper that looked for cost-saving interventions in preventing hea
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How Not to respond to an attack on your company(medium.com)
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I always recommend the book "Leading Snowflakes" for new technical leads or engineering managers: http://leadingsnowflakes.com It gives very concrete advice, and it explains the people side in terms of skills that
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by brandonb 11y ago
Emergency care is only about 2-8% of healthcare costs. Most of what we spend on healthcare is for chronic conditions that you have for years, decades, or your lifetime. @waynemr's comment gets it right -- the real issue is that prices
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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion(hbr.org)
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Why Google Ventures Is Making Moonshots in Health(ww2.kqed.org)
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Makeover Coming for HealthCare.gov(nytimes.com)
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Autonomy Without Chaos, by Google Engineering Director David Singleton [video](youtube.com)
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I worked with a couple of the Insight Data Fellows mentioned in this blog post, on the UCSF Health eHeart study. Mike Klein (Fitbit data to predict heart failure) and Yancheng Liu (Apple Watch data to predict atrial fibrillation) both did a
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by brandonb 11y ago
In the limit, I think you might reach the Affordable Care Act: a single risk pool for each region, and price variations only on age and smoking status.
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Watch Google’s ‘New Treats’ Android Event Here(techcrunch.com)
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This is a really good podcast--I love the idea of progressive equity, and Ben and Andrew do such a thorough job of talking through the implications on employee motivation, secondary sales, pro-rata vs flat, ... Has anybody aside from Detour
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by brandonb 11y ago
I'd recommend either Nava (navahq.com) or the USDS reserves ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser... ).
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The other reports suffer from the same problem -- they're focused on whether paperwork was filled out correctly. That's not what killed the project. To the extent these reports are read, I think they lead people to focus on the wr
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The US Digital Service started with healthcare.gov, but nowadays they work across the government on projects that matter to people all over the political spectrum: VA, immigration, department of education, and more. That said, I have no way
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by brandonb 11y ago
Hey HN! I worked on the "tech surge" to save healthcare.gov, and as many of you have noticed, this report gets everything backwards. A 96-hour training course would not have saved healthcare.gov, and you can't fix bureaucracy
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by brandonb 11y ago
Joyce and Karthik are awesome, I love their vision to make compound interest a thing of the past.
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Cool idea. I can see why you'd want this to be an app—you want the person to take a photo of their bill to contribute back to the database, and make it more accurate for everyone. My question is--what data set are you using to bootstra
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by brandonb 11y ago
Sorry to hear about your relative, and it's great that you're helping. I work in healthcare and uptodate.com is a godsend. It's most likely what your doctor uses to stay up to date. Here's one starting point: http:&#x
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by brandonb 11y ago
Ad Hoc and Nava are both awesome groups of people!
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by brandonb 11y ago
There's plenty of funding, but salaries are capped by law: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi... So Congress would have to pass a law to fix that particular problem.
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by brandonb 11y ago
The conventional wisdom is that rewrites usually fail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_second-system_effect http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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by brandonb 11y ago
As Sam alludes to, many YC alums have joined the government in some capacity—healthcare.gov, US Digital Service, Nava, Presidential Innovation Fellows—and are on HN. Jason Shen from YC S11 recently wrote about the concept of a "Tour of
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by brandonb 11y ago
I think blood sugar => insulin => adrenaline => raised heart rate is as good a hypothesis as any! For cardiac action potential, I'd like to find that out. The avocado (potassium) would be my leading candidate, but cheese (calc
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by brandonb 11y ago
If you happen to have an Apple Watch, give Cardiogram a whirl on the next episode: cardiogr.am. We'd love your feedback!
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The app lets you add a title to each cardiogram, as well as optional annotations for particular moments.
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by brandonb 11y ago
That's good advice. When I had a Moto 360, I also sometimes did the opposite: loosen the strap one notch, and slide it up my arm slightly till it was taught again. Your forearm is a slightly easier place to measure pulse than on a bony
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by brandonb 11y ago
I'd love to show Fitbit data! If they reverse their decision not to integrate with HealthKit, then I think we'll be able to integrate without too much trouble: http://www.cnet.com/news/dont-expect-fitbit-to-in
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by brandonb 11y ago
Did you read the rest of the article? There's a larger purpose here.

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