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Dave deBronkart
Personal blog · epatientdave.comhealth
Dave deBronkart writes e-Patient Dave, a personal blog at epatientdave.com about health. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dave deBronkart's posts as sources on drug pricing effectiveness and on whether doctors count as HIPAA covered entities. The comments cite them as support, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Power to the Patient!
What Hacker News says?
You can't assure us of that; the facts say otherwise. https://www.epatientdave.com/2017/06/16/the-effectiveness-of...
Comment linking /2017/06/16/the-effectiveness-of-the-us-health-system-in-one-graph/
on “UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%”Submitted If there is one thing you should know about your medical record as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> … providers fall into the Covered Entity category … If doctor etc is a Covered Entity then that doctor is most likely a Provider, but is every doctor providing healthcare a really CE? I wouldn’t have said no but I don’t track it ultra closely so I’m curious what’s the latest? My first three results matched my expectation but they could easily be out of date… https://www.epatientdave.com/2020/02/03/hipaa-you-arent-…
Comment linking /2020/02/03/hipaa-you-arent-a-covered-entity-if-you-dont-bill-electronically/
on “Launch HN: Delve (YC W24) – HIPAA compliance as a service”