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by tocs3 761 days ago
Maybe you could add a little detail about what you have planned. It seams a little optimistic that some apps will solve many healthcare problems.

I would like to see some more work along the lines of independent patient advocacy. It is tough, as a lay person, to know what treatments are available and effective (and other pros and cons). Also, navigating insurance, medicare, and other general healthcare related bureaucracy. Also, someone to answer simple health related questions would be nice.

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I think there's many problems that could be solved with apps. Administrative burden is absolutely one that is amenable to huge changes now with LLMs. It's already started, quite a few startups in the medical scribe space, but no one has figured it out fully yet.

I've been working on just that, a medical scribe. It sort of works, but there's quite a few things I still need to learn even before this could be an MVP. Namely privacy and encryption.

I love the idea of a 'patient navigator' – someone or something that explains things to the patient. PocketHealth is doing something when it comes to medical images, but it's not nearly enough!