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brandonb
9,328karma·1,335submissions·January 17, 2011
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Data for good.
Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.
Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)
CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)
Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology
HealthCare.gov rescue team
Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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The graph y axis is showing fractions (i.e., 0.21 is 21%). Sorry for the slightly confusing label.
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For most of these metrics, zero is not a logically possible data point. For example, somebody with an HbA1c of 0 would be dead.
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The existing CPT codes (roughly) pay proportionately to physician time (RVUs). So I wouldn't say there's an an incentive toward delivering care efficiently, but rather hospital management wa…
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Medicare is a government-run insurance program, so this is one of the few cases where a private insurance company wouldn't receive data. (There is such a thing as Medicare advantage, where a pa…
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Isn't the first em dash taken from an interview that the writer did with the subject over Zoom? I think using an em dash to punctuate a broken or partial sentence like that is pretty standard jou…
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I run a YC startup that was accepted to Medicare ACCESS. Historically, insurance has paid for activity: time spent in visits, RVUs generated, and minutes logged. This was a reasonable starting point, …
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