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   Osmind (YC S20) is hiring a senior software engineer to transform mental health

   1 points by luciayhuang 6y ago
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Osmind ( https://www.osmind.org/ ) | Senior Software Engineer| Onsite | Mountain View, CA | Full-time, no visa sponsorship Osmind is building the digital infrastructure to bring about the next era of mental healthcare. We env
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   We've appointed a Chief Security Officer within our startup that oversees security and HIPAA compliance. We work with Vanta (W18) to ensure compliance (they have automation software and compliance dashboards) and have a third-party aud
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Thank you for your honest feedback :) This wasn’t actually just a school project. Jimmy and I met in the class and stayed in touch. One of the many things we bonded over was our shared mental health journey. From growing up in households wh
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Thank you! Yes, after rigorous deanonymization we aim to support academic studies that look to research standards of care, efficacies of treatment paradigms, and public health measures. These collaborations can help develop better procedure
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Thank you for the question! We do more than just redact records by erasing names and all demographic information. We actually remove specific pieces of information from all records, such as medications, lab results, diagnoses, etc. and put
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Thank you for bringing up this great point - yes, agreed that patient-reported outcomes can be sometimes challenging even though this is the standard of "objective" measurement for mental healthcare! Part of our whole goal is to f
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Yes please, we would really love that! Can you shoot me a note at lucia@osmind.org? Thank you :)
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   by luciayhuang 6y ago

   Thank you, we hope so too! Yes, we are planning on using sleep data from wearables or one's phone as well given many of our clinicians have requested it. It would be very interesting to see how that correlates to specific mental health
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Thank you for this!! We so appreciate that you are aligned with the approach. We would love to find interesting ways to return the insights back directly to patients. For example, if you're taking XYZ medication, how do your responses
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Thank you! Yes, we are planning on using wearables data as well. For example, many of our clinicians want to know how people are sleeping or if they are leaving the house, which both can be highly correlated with mental health conditions.
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Thank you for your note - so real! Your work looks really important. Interestingly with self-ensured employers you may want to try their HR/benefits departments rather than anything healthcare related. A lot of bigger companies will al
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Really great question! Two things: 1. We have found doctors to actually want to try to do the right thing for patients in this space. Oftentimes they are seeing people who have tried 10+ SSRIs and experienced mental health conditions for de
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Yes! While we are focused on treatment-resistant mental health conditions because these patients need the most help, we plan to expand more broadly across mental health. We envision a world where everyone can find the right treatment for th
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Thank you! Thank you for bringing up the issues around racial biases when it comes to mental health. We hope to address this in multiple ways: 1) trying to incorporate objective forms of information such as digital and biological data that
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    Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health therapies

    122 points by luciayhuang 6y ago|41 comments
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    by luciayhuang 6y ago

    Osmind | Software Engineers II and III | Mountain View, CA | Onsite/Remote Hybrid | Full Time | http://osmind.org/ There are 22M+ Americans who suffer from treatment-resistant mental health conditions, meaning they’ve
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    by luciayhuang 7y ago

    Osmind | Lead Engineer and iOS Engineer| Bay Area | Full-time | Onsite [all remote for now] Osmind is building a care platform for FDA-approved psychedelic medicine. We build software to guide treatment-resistant mental health patients thro