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by pixie_ 3125 days ago
There's enough anecdotal evidence here to fuel a study in it of itself. I'm surprised there isn't an app out there where you can opt into any number of studies. Surely there's potential for an app like this.. Anyone want to get together and build it?

* edit - maybe it's just an app where you like 'Facebook' all your medical history, and post daily diets, health issues like headaches, acne, etc...

All the data is public and accessible by anyone to trend. There would be no usernames though, everyone just has a guid and all the guids can find people like themselves and chat with anonymity.

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Open for massive fraud as an elective system which might be very damaging for the endeavor itself and could completely discredit it.
We have an open position for you on the team to use machine learning to root out fraud ;)
This is something I've also had in mind for a while. I'd be interested in working on this.
DIY clinical trials with 23andMe DNA data integrated? Sounds awesome.
Seems like an old school system that sucks as it is and is ripe for disruption.
I can help with UX. DM me, my Twitter is in my profile.