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Data driven Personalized Medicine Metamed when you cannot afford misdiagnosis
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Accelerating Future reports on Metamed.
For someone with a persistent medical problem, going to their usual doctor may not be enough. They need to know more than their physician can tell them, and they need to know it soon. That is the idea behind the new company MetaMed, a personalized medical research service backed by Peter Thiel and Jaan Tallinn. In an interview with VentureBeat, CEO Michael Vassar aims to improve the U.S. medical system by demonstrating a “product that works better than the system.” By using doctors and researchers who understand statistics and how to evaluate the relative importance of research findings, MetaMed provides a diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and referrals to doctors in their network who can provide the treatments best for a specific patient. MetaMed provides “evidence based medicine” rather than vague suggestions solely based on domain-general knowledge.
For some problems, our health care system doesn’t cut it. 1 out of 3 patients are actually harmed during their hospital stay, and 7% are harmed permanently or even die as a result of medical errors. Autopsies have proven that doctors misdiagnose fatal illnesses as much as 20% of the time. Given all this uncertainty and error, it’s clear that there’s a market for personalized medical advice based on serious research and statistical understanding.
Holding back the implementation of ideal medical treatments is a lack of knowledge. More than half a million medical articles are published annually
Metamed has the top seven questions you will ever ask
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2013-03-17 11:45:41 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/data-driven-personalized-medicine.html
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