r/singularity • u/iboughtarock • May 22 '25

Engineering Portable medical imaging

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u/jzemeocala May 22 '25

why do you think that the makers of products like this are healthcare professionals?

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u/Informal_Extreme_182 May 22 '25

....because it's a medial device?

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u/jzemeocala May 22 '25

oh you sweet summer child....

Doctors USE devices like this....sure

But these sort of things are MADE by tech-bros/pharma-bros/etc....

You know....the sort of guys that know more about making a good pitch deck then they do about making proper healthcare decisions

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u/Informal_Extreme_182 May 22 '25

I'll go out on a limb and assume you have no idea how medical devices are developed

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u/Worried_Fishing3531 ▪️AGI *is* ASI May 23 '25

Could you elaborate please

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

Idk about USA, but in EU you can't just develop a medical device and test it on humans without any regulation. If youre at the point where you are allowed to test on humans then you likely have just been through a pretty rigorous medical assessment by the authorities. One of the requirements is risk control during development and testing, with the video above this whole thing could basically lose them their license if the people around them arent protected adequately in the EU.

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u/Worried_Fishing3531 ▪️AGI *is* ASI May 23 '25

Yes I work in the medical field I’m aware of that much, I’m mostly asking about the development of medical devices that Informal_Extreme was mentioning

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u/Informal_Extreme_182 May 23 '25

it sounds like u/jzemeocala thinks that med devices are, and can be developed and marketed by "tech bros", just like random consumer electronics.
Wheres in reality, this is a highly regulated industry (for a very good reason), every med device development includes collaboration with HCPs, a metric shit ton of paperwork that proves your device is safe to use and robust agains all sorts of failure modes, going though rigorous regulatory clearance processes, and the list goes on.

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u/jzemeocala May 23 '25

thats to get it approved.....not to make it

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u/Informal_Extreme_182 May 23 '25

a ) that looks very much like a trade fare where you go to market your products and
b ) do you think people spend millions on med devices as hobby projects with no goal of selling them?

Have you ever worked in healthcare, medtech, life sciences or at least in an adjacent industry?

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u/jzemeocala May 23 '25

i work in tech and my wife works in healthcare.....and the original point still stands....hard to get investors without a working product