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First Draft Feedback #1

Closed ye-pang closed 7 years ago

ye-pang commented 7 years ago

Gist: From what i read, I think the idea is to use a personalized monitoring system to help doctors and nurses to regulate the dosage of anticoagulant drug for patients exposed to blood clot risk.

Kept: I like your idea of using statistical analysis to check for abnormalities in INR score and knowing when to intervene. I also like your idea of running an algorithm to show the predicted effect of dosage change.

Cut: I think the idea that dosage and its impact on INR could be weakened by different patients’ conditions somehow weakens the pitch.

Rearranged: Related to the point above, I would move the part about confounding variables as additional variables that you INR management platform would consider to give an informed decision to nurses/doctors.

Added: I think it would be helpful to include how do doctors currently determine dosage changes. Is it a trial and error or conservative incremental changes?

Other Comments:

  1. It certainly takes a trained eye to read tabulated data! As an ex-actuary I am also used to it…but I admit I'd rather look at some pretty visualizations! :)
  2. My friend’s dad can never travel far from home because he needs to check his INR constantly. This coupled with a remote blood test could be life changing!
twitthoefft commented 7 years ago

Kevin, thanks for the feedback! I tried to explain better that patients are unique and that the algorithm would be unique to the patient, rather than a generalized approach. I also added an explanation of how doctors and nurses currently operate, which is either a "one-size-fits-all" standard adjustment, or gradual learning by an individual provider over time.