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Ask HN: After almost dying couple of times I want to revolutionize healthcare

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Hey HN, First of all I wanted to thank you for inspiring a pivot based on this last post of mine that hit the FP on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312566 and thank you for the kind words. I was working on a social app like most of us do, and realized that social apps are a waste of time, there is nothing new or world changing about them. Facebook has kind of solved social already I think 600M friends can prove that. The world needs entrepreneurs to solve real big problems. Since I went through such extensive health issues all by the age of 25, just to name a few: 2 aneurysms, 2 brain surgeries, endocarditis, mitral valve regurgitation, coma, needed to learn how to walk again, and living in the hospital for a while, I decided there is serious change that needs to be done in the healthcare space, coming from someone who not only wants to make money but understands a lot of the problems from within (which there are a lot).

I have a clear picture of what I want to do and its super exciting, I started designing/coding it, but would like to find a co-founder to help me solve such a serious problem.

Email me at: michaelabehsera@gmail.com if you are interested.

Please be serious, I don't want to talk I want to do.

IBM is doing some things with watson around expert systems for disease diagnosis that are pretty interesting. Basically doctors are not very good expert systems as they dont know the real probabilities and can't factor in all the variables (or forget to ask).

Surgeons given software that forms a presurgery checklist have a significant improvement in not screwing things up

Same with pharmacies and detecting side effects between drugs people are taking. etc

I would be interested in hearing what you want to do

Also people have been trying to do electronic medical records for ages. I worked on an electronic patient system in high school in the mid 80's (on macs!)

Some guys I know sold a startup for around 10M that did analytics for hospitals on metrics around physician effectiveness. I think they had only worked on it for a year or two.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/quicklube-shop-masters-elec...

Hi, please get in contact, I may be able to help or put you in touch with people who can dawson@nhs.info

Are you aware of http://massivehealth.com/?

I can't imagine how you can revolutionize healthcare by coding.

Obviously.

Every time I have to deal with the health care system, I feel like I'm going back in time. Doctors that can't even communicate by email. Redundant record keeping. So much lost information. So much lost data. So much waste. Every time I have a problem with my insurance, I have to call a 800 number and sort things out with a human being paid money to do what software could do.

Target issues with information flow. Paper patient records, for instance: everything should be computerized, with symptoms sorted by severity and time. The computer should highlight historical symptoms and diagnoses - perhaps a timeline of medical events. Make allergies and existing conditions extremely obvious; avoid having to ask patients about the past. If possible identify possibly illnesses based on symptoms, though that would almost certainly have very high rates false positive and false negatives.

Hell, you could even go so far as integrating a patient-side application for logging health state: a simple webapp where a patient can go in and report symptoms or general feeling each day. That would make it easier to identify the beginning of symptoms, as well as other illnesses. You should never have to ask the patient how they're feeling at a check-up, because they're likely to forget a lot of things since their last check-up.

Disclaimer: I'm tired, this is just stuff off the top of my head, I'm not involved with health care and have no idea whether these ideas would be useful to doctors and nurses.

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