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Show HN: Get Your Medical Exam Results Explained – Free for Launch (Usually $10) (medlabreport.com)

1 points by TroubleSprouter ↗ HN
Built an AI tool to help anyone understand their medical exam results. Here's what it does:

One File Upload: Get a personalized report on your email within 5 minutes. Covers All Exam Types: Blood tests, biopsies, imaging studies text, urine tests, etc. (If you have a handful, upload them as a joint pdf). No Frills: Straightforward insights tailored to your health needs. Competent: It exceeds the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points.

What's the point: save time, get a second opinion, maybe save your life (https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2023/08/07/bmjqs...).

It's free for now (usually $10). Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

https://medlabreport.com/

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cratermoon
Is this HIPAA compliant?
KomoD
Unlikely, everything gets sent to OpenAI which isn't compliant unless you get an enterprise agreement with them.
KomoD
Why would I trust AI to accurately read my medical exams? Actually, why would I even send you my medical exams at all? There's no info about who runs it, no company name, no individual, nothing other than a twitter account and an email.
TroubleSprouter
It's not intended to replace a doctor, though some may take the fact that it exceeds the passing score on USMLE as enough competence, depending on their needs.

As with all bootstrapped projects that just started, there's no building, no known name, just a new honest project that works but has no way of proving it. Much like why you'd give hotmail all your private data back in the day just because it's there and you need it, despite (in my case at least) knowing absolutely nothing about what or who was behind it.

Would it help if I add a FAQ and or an About Us explaining a bit more? All the system does is extract the data from the file, use it to produce the report, and send the report. There's no further processing of any kind.

How might a new project like this get the credibility or be seen as credible enough for people to start using it and derive value from it with confidence? Very interested in your thoughts / advice.

I thought about linking to a third-party document anonymizing tool so that you can completely remove all references to you or your name or identity before uploading the results. Would that help?

tikkun
The homepage would benefit from:

1) An anonymized example. Show the input PDF/screenshot, show the output result/screenshot

2) Information to help people be confident in trusting uploading a sensitive medical report to this site. This could be information about you, or it could be a local set of steps someone can follow to anonymize their report before they upload it