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Maker_MG82 OP t1_iuswbxu wrote

Reply to comment by m00nturkey in Check where you can watch a movie (or tv show) of your choice in your country by Maker_MG82

I was not happy with the justwatch website, I find the UI too crowded, I just wanted a simpler interface that even my kids could use when checking if a movie was available. As I'm a web developer, it was a good excuse to build something and I thought I might as well release it just in case someone else would find it useful too.

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dimitarbp t1_iusqr1q wrote

Reply to When I was 32, I was told that my bones were like that of an 80 year old. I have built a web application to track bone health and monitor treatments for those like me. No sign-up, No personal data collected, Completely Free and Open-Source. by Abishek_Muthian

Congrats for the effort. From a person who works in the field of medical imaging and image processing in a hospital, I wonder what ideally would be the value of this tool to the person who uses it? If you get a dexa scan, the images would be processed already and most of these values and comparisons with the gold standard will be already done and available for the physician. I'm not sure how they would benefit the patient. We're very careful with such data (which is ofc available for him/her to look at), because it can lead to over-treatment caused by unnecessary high doses of medicine taken by the patient without a specific perscription by the doctor. Again, congrats for the undertaking of this challenge and making it work (frontend and backend), I know how much effort it takes.

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Abishek_Muthian OP t1_iuselpn wrote

Reply to When I was 32, I was told that my bones were like that of an 80 year old. I have built a web application to track bone health and monitor treatments for those like me. No sign-up, No personal data collected, Completely Free and Open-Source. by Abishek_Muthian

When I was 32 years of age I was told that my bones were like that of an 80 year old due to a health disorder called Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis can make our bones fragile and likely to break.

1 in 3 women over the age of 50 years and 1 in 5 men will experience osteoporotic fractures in their lifetime. It is likely that your parents and grand parents are already suffering from Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is identified using a Bone Mineral Density(BMD) scan test which gives scores for our bone density and is compared with the known scores from the healthy individuals of same age.

I was told that these known scores does not include all races, ethinicities and are generally unreliable for those with pre-existing diseases. This makes it difficult for providing proper healthcare, Even more so for outliers like me.

I'm attempting to change that with Bone Health Tracker.

Bone Health Tracker classifies the Bone Mineral Density(BMD) scan test report to display the reports with visualizations to better understand the bone health and to monitor the progress of bone health treatments .

1. Healthcare providers currently have to manually compare the BMD reports of their patients every year to analyze the treatments, With Bone Health Tracker's dynamic chart feature they can now do it automatically and even patients can track the progress of their treatments.

2. Skeleton visualization helps to easily understand which bones are affected by Osteoporosis, Osteopenia even by those without prior medical training.

3. BMD scan test reports without any personal information can be submitted for the research of bone health and treatments for bone health diseases.

No Protected Health Information (“PHI”) is collected during the entire function of Bone Health Tracker as only assessment section of the BMD scan test report is needed.

If you (or) a family member has taken a BMD test, Consider using Bone Health Tracker to monitor the progress of your treatment and submitting the non-personal data for research. If you are researcher dealing with bone health, or know anyone who would be interested in the data gathered by the Bone Health Tracker and help improve it; Please get in touch.

Thank you for reading.

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