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duiker101
I love the design even if it's just a template but is there enough request for a community like this?
laurenstill
Personally, I think so. The mhealth/healthIT twitter communities are pretty strong, but spread out over multiple blogs/domains.
markolschesky
I think the tricky thing is that many Health IT people aren't really interested in what's going on on the other side of the fence except sales people scoping out competition. I only know alot about other Health IT software vendors that I've replaced their software with the company that I worked for. Someone that knows a lot about one vendor might not know anything about any of the others. It makes it easy to make sweeping generalizations sometimes; some of which aren't always warranted.

You could also say the same thing about HN, but it always has this feeling of articles that are either "Academic or things the Valley would care about". Most Health IT topics are neither.

But, I do love the idea.

carlmcqueen
I like it.

While I'm not in the medical world, I have quite a few friends who work on IT departments in analytics and my wife is an occupational therapist. I think there is a market for this I just have no idea how big, personally.

I'll be sure to pass it on.

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timthimmaiah
Not to be a hater, I think it's a cool idea, but spinning up Telescope on a server isn't really 'making' something. At least change the css or something (eg. http://www.hackb.io/)
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MIT_Hacker
I'll have to disagree haha. What's the point in putting in more effort?

Telescope took me a solid 15 mins at most to get running and I can test this "MVP"

thetylerhayes
Pretty sure it's the definition of making something.
z3bra
Thanks I was looking for something like this. Dont be hard, he is trying to see what happens!
laurenstill
I kept on meaning to do this, but work got in the way. Mind expanding it out to healthcare tech in general to cover regulatory and IT policy in addition to mobile? There's a lot of potential with a nice link aggregator for the community.

I hate having to follow comment threads on 15 different blogs.

MIT_Hacker
Same here. I kept wanting to make it and finally got a flight delayed by a couple of hours so I finally made it :)

The goal is generally to cover healthcare tech. Probably a bad title for HN but if you look at the articles on it thus far, it covers a wide spectrum.

laurenstill
Just signed up, will support. I may be able to help a bit bringing some of the loudmouth hcsm personalities over, if that's something you're interested in.
MIT_Hacker
That'd be awesome :) Haha, there are a lot of those guys...
davidhhaddad
i've been working in mobile health for 5 years now. thank you for putting this together.
hayksaakian
I always ask this whenever someone makes one of these:

Why not a subreddit? (a topical section on the user-drive news aggregator Reddit)

MIT_Hacker
My friend texted me as soon as I did this. Maybe it's just me but Reddit always feels so distracting.

Mostly I'm just stubborn and wanted to have control over look/layout.

In all reality nowadays it takes about as long to make a subreddit as it does to make one of these haha.

laurenstill
There is a significant portion of the healthcare conversation (federal policy wonks, CMIO, etc) that will not use reddit for whatever reasons (confusion, overwhelming, not 'serious' etc).

In the interest of developing real conversation, and not just an echo chamber, I think this is the right direction. Also, /r/healthIT and /r/healthcareIT haven't been a great success.

basch
reddit is open source, you can spin up your own instances of it just like telescope.

you could also buy a domain and redirect it to /r/secret101010110000

sgdesign
Subreddits are awesome, but one advantage of using an open-source app like Telescope is that you can customize everything, from the color scheme to the site structure to the ranking algorithm.

(disclaimer: I'm the creator of Telescope :)

MIT_Hacker
Dude. Thanks man. I created this almost entirely from my phone while sitting on a plane.

All I had to do was whip out my computer while sitting at baggage claim and run 'mrt deploy www.healthhackers.org'

Web is a crazy place...

dshanahan
Nice work. I did same Telescope-mvpness at http://lighthouse.io for community builders - putting together a bookmarklet for link sharing and happy to share if I finish it.
d0m
Cool I'll share it on behalf of hackinghealth.ca (We do events where hackers connect with doctors to build similar stuff. So I'll definitely plug that website when people contact me with their new health mobile app :))
anrawool
This is really interesting and clean implementation. Nice work.
gxespino
As someone in healthcare transitioning into healthcare tech/startups - this is amazing! I prefer the Hacker News layout, less images, smaller text, more substance but this is amazing none the less. Thanks!
twhicher
Looks great. Collaboration is the only way tech is going to make a real impact in health.