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sithu
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Comment #9479484
What a sad and terrible loss, my heartfelt condolences to Sheryl and her family.. I wanted to add my thoughts about false positives and executive health checkups, which fall under …
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Comment #9404605
There should also be some discussion about why the US uses more prescription narcotics than any other country. Some interesting data and charts here on global consumption and how i…
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Comment #9384293
For text/charts, a JPEG set at 100% is 2-4 times the size of a PNG and approaches lossless quality, but still isn't.
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Comment #9299908
Patients who know their conditions to the extent that they're able to have a well informed discussion with you at the visit are still quite uncommon. Most people google their diagn…
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Comment #9281934
Great advice, thank you- will make a note of these things for when we start deploying. At the moment, I think we will only need one EC2 instance attached to an encrypted EBS volume…
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Comment #9281918
Thanks for your reply! Very helpful. Got your email, and will be reaching out to you.
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Comment #9279769
Interesting, any recommendations for companies selling insurance for this? Affordable insurance for small companies?
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Comment #9279720
HIPAA is surprisingly vague about the minimum standards for compliance, calling encryption "addressable" instead of "required"[1]. I believe this goes for both data in transit(HTTP…
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Ask HN: Best security practices for startups
Hi, My partner and I plan to launch a healthcare-related web app in the coming months. We'll be hosting on AWS, with the database on an encrypted EBS volume, all conncetions over H…
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Comment #9229292
My wife is co-authoring a review paper on this topic with the group from Zhongshan. The rise in myopia prevalence is really quite staggering, especially among asians. It's a long a…
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Comment #9188948
Yes, if you purchase the item using the card. It's an extended warranty. Quote from benefits section of the gold card: Extended Warranty can extend the terms of the original manufa…
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Comment #9149700
Generally he means addressing the problems "heavy car usage, not enough walking, and no safety for humans". Optimizing city design for people, and not for vehicles. This is general…
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Comment #9147794
It would be great to have the note kept in sync with the comments section on a file/folder when you Get Info on it so it's easily passed along to others. But i'm not sure if that s…
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Comment #9136395
I'm by no means a physicist but find topics on the nature of universe deeply fascinating. One thing i've always found frustratingly difficult to grasp though, is the expansion of t…
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Comment #9120294
My thoughts exactly. Star Trek, and Spock form an indelible part of my childhood that's shaped my early personality more than I probably realize. Truly a sad day. Rest in peace, fr…
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Comment #9104132
I would be very interested in seeing a list of diagnoses from cases that were solved correctly. It seems to me that once someone with a difficult to characterize condition has gone…
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Comment #8857011
Hi there, great images! I'm curious about how West Kendall Baptist Hospital was chosen for the clinical trial? Is this a single-center study? Lots of angiography in the sample imag…
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Comment #7921538
I've been giving your idea some thought, and would be happy to discuss further over email if you like (in my profile). I don't think HIPAA is the main problem you have. The biggest…
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Comment #7828215
Don't doubt yourself so much. While talent is undeniably an advantage, in the long term, someone who is persistent, overcomes obstacles, and has real interest in the work will win …
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Comment #7818863
"All these logos are sized to fit in 16 x 16 pixels." - I was surprised how crisp these look for 16 pixels, then noticed the file was actually 32 x 32 and shows up as such on a ret…
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Comment #7664970
Always enjoy reading your posts 7Figures. I'm in this exact situation, and decided to go the agency route for the same reasons Alex did for Groove. It's hard in some occupations to…