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ggmyesterday at 5:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

Healthcare use of foundry != biotech/bioinformatics use of foundry?

A former work colleague works in health ontologies. They are complicated and include EMT and ward staff using terms of art with inverse meaning.

Perhaps I misread your intent, belittling complexity in somebody else's information space (eg a function of multiple parallel legacy systems and organisational change) seems unhelpful. You weren't excited, maybe people on the management and health economics side were?


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biophysboyyesterday at 3:06 PM

I think you misread it a bit. On the bioinformatics point, I was addressing some text in the link. I don’t mean to belittle people that work in healthcare, just suspicious how Palantir secured contracts.

adolphyesterday at 3:43 PM

Yeah, ontology is a key word. Its like the best concepts from things like Informatica and Pachyderm and Snowflake, structured in a semi-sane data security model and certified with all the fedramp whatnot you need to make cloud saas work for enterprise.