[joelmbell]

This is so awesome. If this takes off, medical advancements in the next 10 years are going to be astronomical.

[dzhiurgis]

Like we are going to find that exercise helps prevent diabetes, heart disease and dementia?

[minthd]

I'm not sure. There were several medical crowd sourcing sites, with patients like me quite successful, but only small incremental advances. Not sure if it's because real research needs more than patient symptoms - it also needs objective stuff like blood tests.

We'll see.

[feld]

The FDA has to get more efficient, too

[seehafer]

Beyond being more efficient, they need to have a shift in thinking as to what constitutes a quality SW development process. Example: as of right now, they still think that a waterfall process is the only process that is "correct".