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denther.com
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Comment · 4 years ago
Healthcare is consumer product. That is not the issue. The issues are:
- information asymmetry & credence good
- negative selection
- lack of standards
- lack of oversight
Comment · 5 years ago
Where did you get that from?
Comment · 5 years ago
That is like saying more fruit stores on the street will drive the fruit prices up.
Comment · 5 years ago
When are you going to offer services to entrepreneurs in countries such as Nigeria, India and Philippines?
Comment · 5 years ago
https://youtu.be/3zL4Hou1P-c?t=187
Mineralisation of tooth is a constant process with a tug-of-war between pathogenic and protective factors [3:09].
If it's in the balance, of the remineralisation factors prevail, you can stop the progress of the cavity. But deeper the cavity, this is harder to achieve.
Arrested dental caries is an official diagnosis recognized by ADA: https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/K00-K95/K00-K14/K02-...
Comment · 5 years ago
> optimize for revenue. I think it's nonsense and even dangerous.
As with everything, there are caveats to the kind of doctor you are talking. The key distinction is that most dentists keep the residual income: the difference between the fixed costs and income. It can be a quite large sum and high % of dentists' earnings. So a dentist has a very strong incentive to increase it. Overtreating patients is the easiest way to do it since increasing the prices is not an option due to competition.
Who isn't keeping the residual income? It's the doctors who work only for a fixed salary. They can't earn more by overtreating. In fact, if they have less work, they are at profit since their salary is fixed. They don't care about increasing the residual income since they don't get it.
So, this is not some conspiracy theory. It is based on economic facts. I've analyzed this in more details here: https://documentation.denther.com/docs/industry/inefficienci...
Comment · 5 years ago
"Game theory is not about winning games, but finding equilibria."
This. However, if you understand the equilibrium for some behaviour, you can understand what would it take to change the behaviour.
I use this in my startup where we create an equilibrium for dentists to provide reliable dental care. And, it actually works.
Comment · 5 years ago
What do you mean?
Comment · 5 years ago
We just started doing tests with couple dozen patients for my startup that provides multiple independent dental opinions. It turned out that 80% of people have bruxism.
Yes, we only had less than 20 people so far, so this statistic will likely change. But what was worrying is that they had no clue. Even despite having tooth wear in a very advanced stage.
Comment · 5 years ago
I got to learn more about limits of UI on Blazor. I am more concerned of introducing a wrong technology in my app.