Assuming that you actually get it to work and that you provide, at best, mediocre diagnostic (which is already really difficult to make), this is a regulatory nightmare and a plain hazardous tool to exist.
I’d even say that people cannot make decisions based on statistics (I doubt that most can even differentiate between anecdotal advice and scientific evidence) that’s why physicians make these decisions for them and if ever a tool is allowed it would only be available for physicians.
For anyone interested in making this sort of tool, the enthusiasm doesn’t last a day or two after talking to a lawyer for a few minutes!
One friend pointed out that you might be able to avoid some of the pitfalls by releasing something like an open source desktop application that requires you to feed it a database of information. Then you could build databases like this in lots of different ways, including anonymous ones or crowdsourced ones. And in this case it might become a lot harder to claim that the creator of the application is liable for anything. I might actually want to talk to a lawyer about this kind of thing, if the lawyer was willing to put on a sort of “engineering” mindset to help me figure out how you might make this happen without getting sued. So if you know anyone like that, I’d be pretty interested
Assuming that you actually get it to work and that you provide, at best, mediocre diagnostic (which is already really difficult to make), this is a regulatory nightmare and a plain hazardous tool to exist.
I’d even say that people cannot make decisions based on statistics (I doubt that most can even differentiate between anecdotal advice and scientific evidence) that’s why physicians make these decisions for them and if ever a tool is allowed it would only be available for physicians.
For anyone interested in making this sort of tool, the enthusiasm doesn’t last a day or two after talking to a lawyer for a few minutes!
One friend pointed out that you might be able to avoid some of the pitfalls by releasing something like an open source desktop application that requires you to feed it a database of information. Then you could build databases like this in lots of different ways, including anonymous ones or crowdsourced ones. And in this case it might become a lot harder to claim that the creator of the application is liable for anything. I might actually want to talk to a lawyer about this kind of thing, if the lawyer was willing to put on a sort of “engineering” mindset to help me figure out how you might make this happen without getting sued. So if you know anyone like that, I’d be pretty interested