Healthcare Data
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the MAD Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
TBPN
3 statements about Healthcare Data, every show
Healthcare data is fundamentally textual narrative rather than structured billing codes
“Healthcare data is fundamentally textural in nature. Like you can't tell me what's wrong with your knee with a bunch of like codes. You need to just like verbally explain to me what's wrong with your knee.”
Sethi: Most released medical data is unstructured documents, not coded data
“Most of the information that's released is not in any coded form. It's documents and PDFs and XML files.”
Anonymized healthcare data should be made openly available for research
“I would love it in this kind of, like, altruistic world if all Healthcare data, anonymized healthcare data, was made available for researchers and people to actually build applications on top of, because just imagine the efficiencies and benefits you could get…”