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A service to send pdfs to your kindle device through a chrome extension or web app.


Really enjoyed your talk two years ago :)


Add healthcare. Cannot send our patients data to a cloud provider


A ton of EMR systems are cloud-hosted these days. There’s already patient data for probably a billion humans in the various hyperscalers.

Totally understand that approaches vary but beyond EMR there’s work to augment radiologists with computer vision to better diagnose, all sorts of cloudy things.

It’s here. It’s growing. Perhaps in your jurisdiction it’s prohibited? If so I wonder for how long.


In the US, HIPAA requires that health care providers complete a Business Associate Agreement with any other orgs that receive PHI in the course of doing business [1]. It basically says they understand HIPAA privacy protections and will work to fulfill the contracting provider's obligations regarding notification of breaches and deletion. Obviously any EMR service will include this by default.

Most orgs charge a huge premium for this. OpenAI offers it directly [2]. Some EMR providers are offering it as an add-on [3], but last I heard, it's wicked expensive.

1: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities...

2: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8660679-how-can-i-get-a-...

3: https://www.ntst.com/carefabric/careguidance-solutions/ai-do...


> Most LLM companies might not even offer it.

I'm pretty sure the LLM services of the big general-purpose cloud providers do (I know for sure that Amazon Bedrock is a HIPAA Eligible Service, meaning it is covered within their standard Business Associate Addendum [their name for the Business Associate Agreeement as part of an AWS contract].)

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...


Sorry to edit snipe you; I realized I hadn't checked in a while so I did a search and updated my comment. It appears OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic also offer BAAs for certain LLM services.


I worked a big health care company recently. We were using Azure's private instances of the GPT models. Fully industry compliant.


Even if it's possible, there is typically a lot of paperwork to get that stuff approved.

There might be a lot less paperwork to just buy 50 decent GPU's and have the IT guy self-host.


Europe? US? In Finland doctors can send live patient encounters to azure openai for transcription and summarization.


In the US, it would be unthinkable for a hospital to send patient data to something like ChatGPT or any other public services.

Might be possible with some certain specific regions/environments of Azure tho, because iirc they have a few that support government confidentiality type of stuff, and some that tout HIPAA compliance as well. Not sure about details of those though.


I recently build a website for a medical practice using Astro.

I was amazed by how easy it was compared to my experience with Wordpress for this several years ago.

And I can host it for free on something like Netlify and I don’t need to worry about the site being hacked, like with WP.

I even built a very simple git-based CMS so that the client can update the content themselves.

Web dev has really come a long way, despite what a lot of people say.


Were you commissioned by a friend? How does one find a gig building a medical practice website?


I’m a doctor myself and thus have contacts to people having medical practices :)

But at least in Germany there are some agencies doing nothing else.


Be careful with Netlify. Their bandwidth charges are even more egregious than Vercel’s.


> Be careful with Netlify. Their bandwidth charges are even more egregious than Vercel’s.

$550/TB for those who want to save a search.


Yes, good point. Although the traffic for these websites is so small, that I think I‘m good there for a long time.


Until you get DDoS'ed and they won't let you set a billing cut-off -.-


Actually the abstractions are much thinner than with something like NextJS imo. It all comes down to what you are comfortable with. If you learned web dev in the React era, this approach feels very odd, but if you come from something like Ruby on Rails, this actually quite intuitive and not a lot of abstraction (see Jeremy‘s comment in this thread).

I personally like to stay with normal HTML and FrankenUI instead FastHTML instead of MonsterUI tho.


For the creation part of a KG I do understand this. But for inference and knowledge organisation, there is still value in graph based semantic structures imo


There is no compelling evidence that MRI contrast agent causes cancer. Gadolinium (the stuff that’s in the contrast agent) can deposit in the body, e.g. in the brain, but if this even has any consequences is still unclear. Nonetheless there is some nice research going on how to drastically reduce the amount of contrast agent needs to be administered through image postprocessing.


Hmm. When I check a few years ago what looked like authortive people said it was - I will admit to not being an expert though.


The name checks out for a sandbox! Well done


Thank you :)


The same symptoms can be caused by either a blood clot OR by hemorrhage in the brain. If you give a patient with a hemorrhage fibrinolytics, you killed him. That’s why you need the CT first: to rule out bleeding.


Came here to say this


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