> Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come close: Scala and Kotlin.
They should also hold prescribers accountable. As a certified physician you hold powers and responsibilities. In many countries these prescribers would lose their licence.
I don't understand how a hardware company who just reported its largest quarterly loss in history with revenue down 36% year-over-year [1] is working on fonts. Or maybe this explains that.
I understand your concerns. Our objectives are, on the contrary, to reduce the doctor/patient distance that was created by EHRs and all the required administrative processes. We already measure that when AI takes care of this stuff, doctors do better engage with patients.
In the meantime:
- we offer a GDPR compliant EU-based hosting option
- we don't store anything (no audio, no transcript, no note): it's stateless and all erased at the end of each consultation
- data is pseudonomyzed as it flows though our systems
Our first customers (large healthcare orgs) have been OK with this so far!
Thanks for your comment. We clearly show a diff to the doctor before updating patient records. We are very explicit that they should check it (and edit if necessary).
I would really use this for many of my projects!
For project A, I used Firebase which was great initially but eventually ran into the limitations well described in Stopa's essay.
For project B, I decided to write everything from scratch but the amount of work it required is crazy, and of course the result in quite brittle.
We started Wit.ai from Pebble's offices in 2013 in Palo Alto. We didn't know anyone in the Valley, but Eric had read our "Show HN" and kindly offered us to hang out there.
We grew to a 6-people team and stayed there for 6 months -- Eric never asked us to pay $1. He helped us a lot and he also pushed us to join YC (W14). We wouldn't have made Wit.ai without him and I'll be thankful forever.