Thank you  


This is a true statement, and the established industry standard. UpToDate is the current gold standard online for Western medical information, and American medical licensing boards widely accept CMEs from UpToDate.

This is three questions--

1) How will ATLAS token help make the project free?

Issuing a token is the only way that I have figured out how to offer a paid resource for free worldwide, and I've been on this project since 2011. Everybody wants us to not have a token but no one is going to wire me $15MM, and I designed ATLAS as a very efficient, fixed supply token using the very best technology we can get our hands on.

There's conflicts of interest with the advertising-funded and subscription-funded models. ATLAS allows us to not offer subscriptions or sell advertising.

2) Why a token?

ATLAS is:
Borderless - Doctors across the world can tip each other with no restrictions (unlike sending fiat)

Incentive - Holding a significant minority of ATLAS tokens gives the PeerAtlas foundation the ability to fund its more ambitious long-term goals if it is successful in its short-term goals (unlike using someone else's token, and unlike if someone wired me $15MM)

3) How will we protect patient data?

PeerAtlas is starting out as an open source medical encyclopedia. Another more fancy way of saying this, is that it is an evidence-based clinical decision support tool to help medical professionals make decisions.

At this stage in the project, we won't use patient data at all. We aspire to have the high quality of the peer-reviewed resource UpToDate (uptodate.com) but without a subcription-based paywall.

I see two important questions in the latest post.



In general, having attained a high level of education in a specialty is best when writing articles about that specialty, although simply having a degree is not enough to make a fantastic resource. Let me elaborate.

The information has to be high quality, and the information has to be trusted by professional users. I can say at this point that we will accept contributions from users that create trust from civilians and professionals alike in areas which they are qualified. Additionally, I am very aware that midlevel care providers can be far more competent in certain areas than the attending physicians because they benefit from specialization and hands-on experience.

To repeat myself, a contributor needs to be both correct, and trusted. In the real world these do not always overlap. People should feel a sense of relief when they use the encyclopedia. I'm being vague on specific degrees at this point because they need to fulfill these two requirements.


That's correct. Professionals send ATLAS to the foundation and then the foundation redeems CME hours that professionals have accumulated with their boards.

We do too!

Shakespeare had some intense opening lines, too. Try telling the encyclopedia industry that their pay model was not permanently destroyed by crowdsourcing. I'm comfortable with calling a successful displacement of the subscription model 'permanent'. Young doctors raised around a trustworthy free medical resource will never go back.


Well at first I do, along with Brad, and we're physicians. "Qualified" in this context means a medical degree, most likely an M.D. or equivalent. Yes we are inspired by the spirit of Wikipedia, but PeerAtlas is not Wikipedia, so don't get it twisted. Medical decision making and treatment is every bit as serious as the military. Wikipedia doesn't have peer review. "Peer" is literally in our name


By evaluating their...qualifications. We are doctors. Doctors are public figures. And again, the peer review process is a further safeguard


Yes.


No.


You can't 'buy' CME. You have to earn it through research and use of the platform, the same as with the gold standard, UpToDate. Once healthcare professionals have earned the CME, we will redeem them for ATLAS tokens.


Brad's personal interest is reducing physician error and improving outcomes though eventually introducing machine learning to medical treatment and decision making.
In the fifth century A.D., Saint Patrick cast all of the snakes out of Ireland by driving them into the sea. My personal interest, to keep our platform free from special interest dollars, is a smaller task.

Thanks for your interest in our project and all the good questions.

Colin Closser M.D.

I sincerely appreciate this redaction. You should know that I am extremely suspicious of healthcare projects on blockchain and would short 85 percent of them if crypto was a more traditional market.

Hey what's up guys my name is Colin Closser, M.D., I have been friends with Dr. Mattson for 20 years and I am co-founder of the PeerAtlas project


Cool story bro    Personally, I would stay far far away from people shilling ERC20s...but you do you, we're all adults here hopefully

When it rains, it pours. Jeez

Yes, that's right, I wrote the whitepaper in the same month that Brad passed his radiology boards on the first try. I also traded my sweet little fingers off during that month putting up volume specifically between Antshares markets in the USA and China. So I postponed my career. Conspiracy confirmed.

Dr. Mattson is a board certified radiologist that is finishing up his final year of residency and you should click on https://www.baystatehealth.org/education-research/education/residencies/radiology/current-residents and then "PGY5" to see his current profile and then you should feel bad about yourself.

He finishes his residency on June 30. Fellowships are optional. Deal with it


Thank you for the positive feedback, we are trying to launch our token on the NEO blockchain as an SEC compliant security, if that's what you were asking