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thinkingtoiletlast Wednesday at 5:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

I work for a medical technology company. How do you propose we service our customers without their medical data?


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rainonmoonlast Thursday at 10:35 AM

I just registered CVEs in several platforms in a related industry, the founders of whom likely all asked themselves a similar question. And yet, it's the wrong question. The right one is, "Does this company need to exist?" I don't know you or your company. Maybe it's great. But many startups are born thinking there's a technological answer to a question that requires a social/political one. And instead of fixing the problem, the same founders use their newfound wealth to lobby to entrench the problem that justifies their company's existence, rather than resolves the need for it to exist in the first place. "How do you propose we service our customers without their medical data?" Fix your fucked healthcare system.

nemomarxlast Wednesday at 6:54 PM

Does it need to be hosted on your servers? Could you provide something to the customers where they host the data or their local doctors office does it?

Can you delete it after the shortest possible period of using it, potentially? Do you keep data after someone stops being a customer or stops actively using the tech?

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cheeseomlitlast Wednesday at 5:59 PM

Ask for it?

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