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Discussion on: Request for Comments: Quirk, an Open Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy App

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Michael Hiltz • Edited

Evan,

Im not a developer. I am an outpatient psychiatric nurse practitioner. You really hit it SPOT ON with Quirk. I use Android and can give you feedback from clinician and user perspective.

Any interest in building an electronic medical record system for outpatient psychiatry? I have a ton of experience, but no code/dev skills.

Oh? Is it called Freak?

Best,
Mike

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Evan • Edited

Freak is sort of an early prototype, I figured “quirk” was a lot nicer name. I called it freak originally because the term “panic” was a keyword in the programming language I built it in and it go too confusing. When I was a kid, I called my panic attacks “freak outs” since I wasn’t sure what they were. But the term “freak” has a pretty negative conotation when used as a noun, so i renamed the whole thing to “quirk.”

I’d definitely be interested in your thoughts/opinions however. I’m not a doc, and I’m most definitely gonna miss something. Send me a DM on twitter: @flaqueeau

As for EMR systems, as much as I would love to try and tackle that problem, I generally maintain a “two-project” rule. Right now, building the developer platform for Segment is my #1 project and Quirk is my weekend/opensource project.