Startup Ideas
Re Smart Bathroom:<p>Every time I hear about all-knowing toilets, I continue to feel it’s putting the cart way ahead of the horse.<p>There’s a rule in medicine: don’t order a test whose outcome doesn’t change your decision. That’s not about cost-savings, it’s about avoiding false positives that make no sense in clinical context but raise flags that must be chased down.<p>This sort of thing is literally promising to just continually run un-merited urinalysis left and right.<p>“More data” is not inherently good. Without a framework of information for interpretation of that data, it will do far more harm than good.<p>Honestly, the reason so little tech disruption keeps happening in the provision of medical services: no one trying to “disrupt” bothers asking what is or is not useful. There are just some ideas completely out of touch with what people need or want or have friction over, and they just refuse to die because they’re the most obvious ideas to have if you’re unfamiliar with the territory.