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Simulated Hospital

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Re: Simulated Hospital

#11

How can you know if the fake data is sufficiently similar to real data? I wonder what Google's use case for this is.

Google has a whole bunch of products/tools in the healthcare space, and it seems like their contribution there is only growing. I've been working with FHIR/EHR adjacent tooling lately for a personal project, and a good number of both open source resources and SAAS products I've seen have been from Google.

More broadly, all big 3 cloud providers (Azure, AWS, and Google) have offerings for FHIR data storage and API access, as well as common NLP based healthcare data analysis workflows. Many of these seem relatively new, or as if they have had a lot of recent attention focused on them. I'm definitely interested in how/why these companies (as well as some other VC funded ones, like Medplum), are entering this space with products that are not directly sellable, but are rather things that other tools would have to build upon. It seems like AWS works directly with end-customers to use their APIs to build products, but I'm not sure what Azure and Google are doing.

This one's probably too complex for my use case, but I thought the concept looked very neat and wanted to share.

Re: Simulated Hospital

#13
Nice effort, and its something. But something may not be good enough to solve hard problems.

Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several?

Does it simulate staff forgetting the dosage was not edited after pasting into all those charts ?

Or staff not logging out of their userID, to avoid the need to log in every time someone needs to add a note/document into a chart? So that , in fact, the doc added by Dr Smith, was actually done by his assistant Tully?

Life is complicated. People use systems in wild and unexpected ways.

Real solutions require real data.

Re: Simulated Hospital

#16

Nice effort, and its something. But something may not be good enough to solve hard problems. Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several? Does it simulate staff forgetting the dosage was not edited after pasting into all those charts ? Or staff not logging out of their userID, to avoid…

> Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several?

What CPOE system involves notes? None of the handful I've used in the US.

No modern EMR here involves any copy pasting for orders.

Re: Simulated Hospital

#20
Nice effort. Would love to see more open source work from tech companies in this space. I remember working on a healthcare product (which involved HL7) years ago and it was a pain. The lack of documentation and any supporting tooling was "mind blowing".
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