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Comment · 10 years ago
Hey, Andrei (the UBC grad) and founder of Human API here.
We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.
I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.
Comment · 12 years ago
Human API, (Palo Alto, CA), Full Stack Software Engineers
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Human API is building the universal health data API, data infrastructure & developer platform to make it really easy to integrate health data.
We are looking to add core full stack / data engineers to our fast growing team. We are well funded (Max Levchin, Andreessen Horrowitz, Eric Schmidt, among others) and based in downtown Palo Alto in sunny California.
More details: http://humanapi.co/aboutus
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Contact [email protected] if you're interested.
Comment · 12 years ago
Palo Alto, CA /// Human API (http://humanapi.co) /// FULL-TIME
We're an early stage health technology startup based in San Francisco. We are building the universal health data infrastructure to power the next generation of healthcare apps (and the developer tools to go along with it). We recently closed a funding round of $2.1M with some awesome investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Eric Schmidt, Thomas Korte, Alex Payne, Max Levchin, and a few others.
We are adding 4 more engineers to our core team to help us build out our infrastructure and continue to scale our API.
Job descriptions are here: http://humanapi.co/jobs
Happy to sponsor H1B / TN visas for awesome candidates.
If you're interested just send me an email to [email protected]
Comment · 13 years ago
Target buy price?
Comment · 13 years ago
Is anyone operating a reliable bitcoin options market?
Comment · 13 years ago
It is free for the end user to sign up and use as a personal API (and we already have around 50 or so services). What we charge developers for is building multi-user applications on top of it.
Comment · 13 years ago
We are working on solving some of this, specifically for health data, at http://humanapi.co - you can connect your various data sources, and we then give you a central personalized API you can query.
(full disclosure, I am the founder of this company)
Comment · 13 years ago
I was waiting for someone to do this...
Comment · 13 years ago
Delian - love the initiative!
There are a few basic assumptions underlying your vision that may be useful to flush out further (I can tell you that, from similar experience, what you are going to bump in to is a fundamental lack of desire from the majority of the system to see change).
1. You are betting that Obamacare will actually drive the system towards "accountable" care -- we are a long way off from this unfortunately. I won't rehash it all here, but many ACOs are turning back from the model: http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/HHNDaily/HHNDailyDisplay.dhtml?...
2. You are betting that patient engagement in their own health will be high, particularly for the high cost, at risk patients. This has been historically proven not to be the case. High touch intervention + technology works (i.e. take a look at the Diabetes Prevention Programs now being run digitally by organizations such as Omada) but technology by itself has had a pretty low hit rate with driving meaningful patient engagement for the at risk populations. For some reading on the challenges of adherence, check out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661624/
I really do think we need more people working on these problems, so keep at it, and if I can help at all please let me know!
(drop me a line at [email protected])
Comment · 13 years ago
open in incognito window (cmd+shift+n)... yeesh.