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Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: "SleepyHead" is a free, open-source, and definitely not FDA-approved piece of software for sleep apnea patients that is the product of thousands of hours of hacking and development by a lone Australian developer named Mark Watkins, who has helped thousands of sleep apnea patients take back control of their treatment from overburdened and underinvested doctors. The software gives patients access to the sleep data that is already being generated by their CPAP machines but generally remains inaccessible, hidden by DRM and proprietary data formats that can only be read by authorized users (doctors) on proprietary pieces of software that patients often can't buy or download. SleepyHead and community-run forums like CPAPtalk.com and ApneaBoard.com have allowed patients to circumvent medical device manufacturers, who would prefer that the software not exist at all. Medical device manufacturers fought in 2015 to prevent an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to legalize hacking by patients who wanted to access their own data, but an exemption was granted, legalizing SleepyHead and software like it.
To fix medicine in the USA
1 eliminate the AMA. We need more doctors.
2 eliminate FDA. It provides the Monopoly for drug makers
3 eliminate insurance. Patients direct pay
4 eliminate HIPPA. HIPPA is used by hospitals to cover up incompetence. Publish the results of all medical interactions
5 require price for service be posted in waiting rooms.
6 eliminate punitive malpractice awards. They force docs to practice defensive medicine. You can't get sued for doing nothing.
These go against the vested interest of media, drug, insurance, legal and political parasytes, so the post will be called a homosexual Nazi homophobic racist rant against black people, but oh well.