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by intractable
4923 days ago
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In my experience, one of the most significant hindrances has been access to and communication with medical personnel: - Medics, especially specialists / surgeons, have extremely busy schedules, often holding down both public & private patient responsibilities as well as performing duties for their specific colleges etc. - The level of IT-savvy amongst healthcare pros is generally low. - They seem to have a different logic to us IT folk, answers are nebulous for non-medics and hard rules are very difficult to pin down. Ask the same question n times and you will get n different answers, from the same respondent. When you find a medic who is willing / able to help and towards the positive on all the above axes, you must hold onto them with a death grip. |
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- Medics have extremely busy schedules and so they don't want to have their time wasted by lack of data, lack of rigorous testing, and risk to their patients. Software pros work in cozy offices not splattered in patient fluids, from 11AM - whenever, and yet don't expend the extra effort to statistically test data, design efficient algorithms and user interfaces, etc., before throwing something over the wall as a MVP. - The level of healthcare savvy among software pros is generally pretty low - MDs seem to have a logic that focuses on quality, meticulous attention to detail, going the extra distance without added compensation, acceptance of hard and legally binding rules about ethics, data collection, privacy, security, efficacy, peer review, etc.. Run the same software program n times and you will get n different bugs, from the same software developer.
When you find a software pro who is willing / able to help on all the above, you do need to hold on to them (and pay a high market salary, with good health care benefits, and reward them for quality and precision vs. MVP attributes.)