cmonsen

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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   Sorry that it's down. Getting a lot of HN traffic. I tend to agree with your wife (I'm a 4th year med student at Hopkins), which is why I'm building my own. I think it's easy for websites to just say "if you are concerned, see a doctor" but
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   Re: NHS Direct, I've seen it and agree that it's a cool tool. It's pretty much restricted to triage and doesn't give you a great sense of what you have, though. Also, only helps in the UK. :( There's a good paper on it that explains most pe
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   Glad to hear it worked out for you! Unfortunately, for every person that are helped by medical information, there are 5 who are caused unnecessary anxiety. We want to give patients access to data that lets them know when they should be conc
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   We've started with the most common symptoms, but are building it out more. We'll add the armpit, thanks for the suggestions! The AI component is the fact that we train our algorithm based on clinical data from real patients (started with CD
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   I love House. I'm not sure I'm ready to replace him just yet.
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   We're still building out the synonym vocabulary and we do that by analyzing user queries. I added "bloody feces."
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   We did a standard 80/20 training/testing trial. We found that the correct diagnosis was in the top 5 of the generated possibilities 50% of the time. What will be helpful is to update the algorithm from user input. I'd be interested in heari
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   That's a fair suggestion. The question is if "rewarding" people with a list of diagnoses from just 1 symptom is worth the cost of resources. My fear is that in the process of having people enter an arbitrary number of symptoms and then havi
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   by cmonsen 15y ago

   Yeah, we're working on that. :)
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    The data comes from ED and outpatient doc visits so it "assumes" a certain level of concern from the user at the outset. However, the algorithms can learn so that less severe diagnoses ("lack of sleep", "caffeine withdrawal", etc) will rise
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know!
12. 42.▲
    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Fixed. Thanks!
13. 43.▲
    by cmonsen 15y ago

    We've tested on both of them. What's your error message? This may be a traffic-related problem...
14. 44.▲
    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. User privacy will be critical and we are making that a priority.
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    We'll be adding symptoms based on user input analysis and building out the symptom synonym engine. True, there has been a lot of work in medical expert systems. DXPlain is an old one that tends to come up a lot in our conversations. We have
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Ok, fixed that. The results still need some work, but it should be much better than what you were getting before.
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Yeah, we have about 1000 symptoms, but that is an example of one we haven't incorporated yet. We'll add it, thanks for your help! That's exactly where we're going. We want to direct patients to the right doctor/level of care and are incor
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    We started working on this during our ER rotation and were surprised how many people were showing up concerned about things that were ultimately minor complaints (eg cough, sore throat). Many of them had no primary care doctor or just didn'
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    We've taken a leave and are part of the health tech accelerator Blueprint Health in NYC.
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Thanks. We're adding more medical practices this weekend.
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    We're Hopkins med students with a new startup. Would love to hear your feedback.
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    Your doctor doesn't want you to see this -- diagnosis using AI(symcat.com)

    72 points by cmonsen 15y ago|87 comments
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Thanks, this is part of a larger project that we'll share soon. We're just gathering some feedback and data about how people interact with this sort of web offering.
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    Show HN: Crowd-sourced medical diagnosis (feedback?)(headachestory.com)

    5 points by cmonsen 15y ago|2 comments
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    Cure headaches by crowd-sourcing (feedback?)(headachestory.com)

    3 points by cmonsen 15y ago|0 comments
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    by cmonsen 15y ago

    Not to mention that publication bias leads to incorrect results. See http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam... or the PLoS paper: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal... . I am most hopeful f