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by skwb 7y ago
Frankly I HATE web based notebooks. I do deep learning research, and I write a lot of complex functions to handle pre-processing. And with that there's a lot of debugging I need to do, particularly visual debugging of images. The inter
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by skwb 7y ago
We use heatmap localization to identify the cardiac landmarks that define the viewing planes.
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by skwb 7y ago
I'm working on automating the acquisition of cardiac MRIs using deep learning!
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by skwb 7y ago
Let this be a lesson of why it's a bad to let growth get ahead of science.
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by skwb 7y ago
A bit dated, but it seems that current has about a $1B total revenue overall (circa 2015). In my very cursorily search, I couldn't find any more specific data, but $1B total revenue from SD resident data seems a bit high to me (kudos t
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by skwb 7y ago
I would say your primary strength right now is that you're clearly skilled in developing an aesthetically pleasing front end experience, something that EPIC and other major vendors don't do well (there's an entire PhD thesis
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by skwb 7y ago
Yeah, but there's not exactly a strong trend of more independent non-hospital affiliated practices springing up creating a huge market [1, 2]. I also sorta doubt that the practices that have a large need for EHR/RCM (i.e. anyone w
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by skwb 7y ago
If I may be blunt, it seems to lack a TON of features any modern practicing doctor would want. A lot of doctors need the ability to do documentation for reimbursement, and I don't really see any demonstration that this was taken seriou
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by skwb 7y ago
Looks like the google doc has editing/downloading turned off... if only there were a way to disable it... cough cough https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40296831/is-it-possible-... https://sta
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by skwb 7y ago
Almost, but not quite right. Usually doctors and medical professionals use reference guides like Merk Drug Manual and Up To Date. They essentially fill in the gap somewhere between review articles (which can be a bit too specifically focuse
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by skwb 7y ago
Bingo! And it's not just in tech/IT, but in other related fields as well. The real answer is that the Fed has been a bit overly skittish when it comes to balancing economic growth vs. inflation, despite real inflation remaining at
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by skwb 7y ago
Easy: when I can safely and easily install tensorflow on python 3.8 [1.]. 1. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/33374#event-...
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by skwb 7y ago
This is precisely why I chose to install DD-WRT on all my routers. Not only does it give me more fine grain control over all my admin privileges, I know I don't have to rely on some company making the cost-benefit decision over if it&#
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by skwb 7y ago
There's a certain chicken or egg among health economists for the role of HITECH requirements resulting in consolidation [1, 2]. On one hand, these HITECH requirements put additional technological reporting, which may be a driver of con
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by skwb 7y ago
I wonder how burdensome it is to even get the tool fully integrated into the ehr. Like are the doctors not using it because it requires manual input of drugs and insurance? Even then, the doctors aren’t necessarily getting paid more for doi
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by skwb 7y ago
Most insurance works on the basis that we have some underlying risk (probability) and resulting cost (multiplied together gives us the expectation) of annual payout. A lot of these funds however are financed through CAT bonds [1]. The idea
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by skwb 7y ago
It's not so much that they can wind down the energy they make, it's the fact that they cannot store energy for when there's increased demand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLzss58CLs
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by skwb 7y ago
Uh, yes it does! Economics and policy is all about making (often hard) decisions. Low energy costs have enabled us to make huge economics advances, enabling me to use the computer I'm typing this on. And as promising as renewables are,
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by skwb 7y ago
Except the whole skills gap thing is basically a way of businesses communicating that the labor market is weak enough to ask for higher qualified workers at lower salary: https://www.vox.com/2019/1/7/18166951&
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by skwb 7y ago
> Tech jobs in San Diego pay terrible Is this commensurate with cost of living? I know SF pays more in real dollars, but cost of living in bay is also much higher than SD.
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by skwb 7y ago
I don't even think it's about the ethics that necessarily make this statement wrong (though, you are correct in that HN needs to consider basic ethics on a much more frequent basis). In the case of these detections, the ground tru
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by skwb 7y ago
Except there's an entire literature of false positives and the costs associated with these detections [1]. Costs here include not only direct financial costs of potentially unnecessary surgical procedures, but include everything to ad
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by skwb 7y ago
I think as much as the tech industry likes to think that Theranos was a one off problem, I am becoming increasingly suspicious that it's suspect it's not. I don't think that you can just import the silicon valley mindset of
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by skwb 7y ago
Not in the least. Just to name a few of the ways the ACA changed things in the right direction for most "normal" ESI: - ACA threw out lifetime nor annual limits [0] - Essential benefits ensuring you have a more comprehensive plan
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by skwb 7y ago
Do you have any roles for senior level graduate students?
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by skwb 7y ago
What incentive is there for medical students to do this work for free? I don't know of any doctor that would just give away all their work for learning. They get plenty of that during their lecture. Is this supposed to be a product to
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by skwb 8y ago
I think the current system is working now, it just needs enforcement. 510(k) applications (where you need a preexisting requisite on class 2, or low/moderate risk device) certainly seem to be doing their job. Lots of healthcare startup
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by skwb 8y ago
Costs don't drive prices. Demand does. I'll be the first to admit that pharmaceutical economics is not simple (lots of externalities, asymmetry of information, etc.), but in the long run costs do matter, and so does price. Best ex
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by skwb 8y ago
All the preclinical work is actually the cheap part of pharmaceutical development. Most of the costs come from the clinical trials for the FDA. Now a lot of the reason for this is that the US spends a pretty penny (and a lot of elbow grease
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by skwb 8y ago
I think there has to be tougher scrutiny for the tech we apply to healthcare. Us in the healthcare technology community have to have the guts to stand up and call out companies like theranos. If we don't, investors will come away think

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