Meddik would help with that. Especially with rarer disorders like Barrett's esophagus (or less diagnoses, rather), you'll hear about new treatments as soon as our engine surfaces them. Thanks for the support!
From our research about these laws, as long as we cite back to the original site (i.e. we're not displaying their information on our own sites, only linking to them) and respect the no-scrape robots.txt files, we're in the clear.
I feel ya. Having worked in healthcare for years and as a medical student myself / recently gone through rounds, I know exactly where you're coming from. In addition, I am a patient myself in the hospital once a week.
Moreover, having grown up in this era of cyberchondria, I know that the danger of self-treatment is ever present and real, but that's not the problem we're set out to solve.
Physicians know quite a bit, yes. They can tell you what medicines to take, anecdotally what they've seen, and what the latest research tells them. However, they're far removed from what the patient actually goes through in terms of daily struggles, and what is out there to help them with that.
We built our technology with the mindset to surface useful information and bury scams. We actually built a medical search engine that did just that, but it didn't take.
We interpret "apply to managing my medical condition" as directing you to the right resources (e.g. Crohnology for Crohns, WeSprout for parents) that you might not have otherwise heard of. And we definitely have safeguards against spam.
We've built this for enterprise; it's just a matter of adding a consumer facing aspect to it. And yes, we're gauging interest to see if it is even worth it to have a consumer web aspect.
Hoping to launch at the end of Techstar's Affiliate startup accelerator Blueprint Health (mid-March). Thanks!
1. Who else is in this space of content organization? Plus, in the spirit of start-ups, it's never about how many competitors you have; it's about who can ultimately provide the most value :)
2. Holding user data, but we're deidentified enough to be HIPAA-compliant (or at least our lawyers say so.)
3. Haha, you don't have to believe us. You'll see it in action when it's live.
4. We know both of those teams and they're both fantastic! Our goal isn't to replace them, just increase their awareness. Patientslikeme works fantastically for chronic diseases; Crohnology is a great start-up for Crohn's disease. But the percentage of Crohn's users who actually know about Crohnology and product updates is low. Our goal is to get the newest and best information to those who need it most.
5. Perhaps not, but there are a couple distinguishing factors here. First, the more common chronic diseases have resources like that, but many of the ones in between have little support. Second, the topics we cover are a bit different. They're focused on generating their own content and might miss out on some of the thousands of new apps being generated in this health boom. Ultimately, we'd love to provide more awareness to newsletters like that if they're really the most helpful tool.
The difference: We scrape medical forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc (all the social media avenues) and add a layer of intelligent semantic analysis to bring you the best information relevant to what you have (or just the hottest news if you don't have anything).
If there isn't anything new that meets our threshold, we won't send you anything.
That's fair. Then again, that's how Summify started out, too. Once we get the consumer-facing site built, feel free to sign-up then. This list is just for people who want to be notified once we're live.
Actually, if you don't have a specific medical condition but just wanted to stay up-to-date with something in health (new startups, health technology, health policy, etc), It serves the same function.
Thanks! This idea came out of the fact that we built an enterprise Radian6-like platform specifically for the health vertical and realized this would be a useful tool for consumers as well.
That and people send so much time searching for this stuff anyways, we might as well help them out.
Haha I'll admit the synthesizer wasn't great. I just used the default.
I'm a violinist, and actually have owned/played on several electric violins in the past. The most decent model (from sharmusic.com) that I tested back in 2006 costed $500. The fifty dollar ones just didn't cut it for me.
The point of the violin design, however, was so I could tie different aspects of performance (body movement, bow tilt, vibrato) to new parameters.
Previous designs actually didn't use iPhones or wiimotes. Rather, just DIY accelerometers. But, I wanted to use devices that people already had. So of course I wouldn't expect people to shell out cash to buy an iPhone just for this purpose. But for those existing iPhone users (who don't have a Wii), buying a Wiimote isn't too costly.
For those who are interested, I was classically trained in piano, violin and voice. Used to play in professional groups for awhile. I studied music and music technology in college.
And you're right! This shouldn't be a replacement for the joy of struggling with an acoustic instrument. This just serves to put a new twist on an old idea.