There's a very interesting problem in this space we're about to all be hit by, right?
Most all of the healthcare problems we have could be solved/made better/made less expensive by massive data mining (disclaimer: I work in a related area nowadays). The problem is, to be most useful, that data has to be both complete and correlated with other such data points.
That pretty much destroys privacy as we know it, at least until we find some way of updating our societal mores to be less discriminatory.
Example: How great would it be to have automated notification of STD/STI risks (Siri suggests: wear a rubber if they take you home tonight, no reason)? How about having a simple way of being warned when cold season is actually happening in your area (some threshold of people in your vicinity are currently seeing a doc about a rhinovirus case, so be careful)?
Even more concretely: we can't optimize the hospital services because all that data is silo'ed and fragmented so badly. Your medical history is always incomplete.
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Yeah, kind of winced when I read that.
There's a very interesting problem in this space we're about to all be hit by, right?
Most all of the healthcare problems we have could be solved/made better/made less expensive by massive data mining (disclaimer: I work in a related area nowadays). The problem is, to be most useful, that data has to be both complete and correlated with other such data points.
That pretty much destroys privacy as we know it, at least until we find some way of updating our societal mores to be less discriminatory.
Example: How great would it be to have automated notification of STD/STI risks (Siri suggests: wear a rubber if they take you home tonight, no reason)? How about having a simple way of being warned when cold season is actually happening in your area (some threshold of people in your vicinity are currently seeing a doc about a rhinovirus case, so be careful)?
Even more concretely: we can't optimize the hospital services because all that data is silo'ed and fragmented so badly. Your medical history is always incomplete.