we've discovered teleportation and we're using it to get to the bus station on time. healthcare especially is full of assumptions we've stopped questioning. it's about time we picked some apart. a billion years since i last wrote something, so might as well have an upbeat title.

epic announces new ai-enabled emr youtu.be/_P43bWrZiV4?si=unC_…

there’s some ideation on this in the healthcare proposals of Project2025

think there are much better people out there for your “communion strategy”

combining local real-time de-id w/ re-id is pretty powerful you can utilize a 3rd-party app to improve your own service (currently, commonly a closed-source LLM) or covered entity end-users can use your service w/ clinical context below: diagram of potential workflow unlocks

going one step further - @NablaTech released an interesting post regarding their approach to privacy and security. other orgs seem to be doing this (@athelas) the data flow below articulates how one might re-identify to restore clinical context, post de-id

luckily, everybody's favorite hype cycle, the LLM, is great at de-identification in real-time some models are small enough to be installed locally

Cash Pay Transactions HIPAA strictly applies to specific electronic transactions. this means that strictly cash pay / direct primary care practices don't need BAAs. this is a pretty low TAM, and as soon as any electronic transaction occurs you're back at square 1

product-led growth is hard to come by in healthcare, with the divine hammer of privacy regulation waiting to smite you at almost every step. i thought through the question: where is it possible, if at all, to do bottoms-up distribution?

new post tomorrow! the topic: where in healthcare is it possible to do product-led distribution? i melted my eyes reading up on HIPAA, talked to policy + data experts, and put together my thoughts this was me reviewing to quadruple-check that I didn't say "HIPPA"