What would be a good health + tech related project to pursue?

[milanello1]

so I have to do a mini-thesis like project of something health related and I have decided to take on a tech direction with it. Obvious things have come to mind such as data-analysis for personalized medicine, apps/startups aiming to make more efficient old and outdated processes etc, however, these kind of seem to be the low hanging fruit. I want to look into something that is truly cutting edge and can cause disruption and hopefully if my research can back it up I can pursue it and make it into an actual product or website etc.

Any ideas are appreciated!

[thetylerhayes]

I want to look into something that is truly cutting edge and can cause disruption.

John listed many good projects. Based on ^^, other good places to look to help generate ideas:

Current notable movers:

* http://rockhealth.com (also check out their Events page in case you may able to get cheap access to conferences as a student)

* http://blog.23andme.com

And places to see what people are talking about/building:

* http://www.quora.com/Health-Informatics and all sorts of related topics

* https://angel.co/health-care-information-technology and all sorts of related topics

* http://mobihealthnews.com

* http://www.imedicalapps.com

And in general I'd recommend following any company/person you learn about from the above ^^ on http://crunchbase.com

Also feel free to shoot me an email [e-mail]. I'm in the process of starting up my own health tech-related project (http://blog.stayinyourprime.com) so I've been doing a lot of research. Happy to share what I've learned and chat more about what you're doing.

[thetylerhayes]

Also see Katelyn Gleason's post on a recent Nick Grossman (of USV) post about things he thinks people can build in this space: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043588

[johnmurch]

Mind dump of thoughts/sites:

http://www.fitbit.com/ http://nikeplus.nike.com/plus/what_is_fuel/ https://jawbone.com/up

Lots of hardware devices and some software integrations, but need to think outside the box.

www.dietbet.com/ - Gamification of working out is a great idea/starting point, but what about taking it further. Choosing what you eat can be more important than working out.

A food/photo sharing/tracking software of pictures of everything you eat and possibly automated/encouragement via mechanicalturk based on does it look healthy would be cool. Also could align with friends/groups who are trying to eat healthy - people could comment and say WTF/Seriously... or better yet, ask wheres the photo or have you not eatten?

Some other directions would be more in line with a chrome plugin that goes off ever 30min for you to do a pushup or something.

Just some thoughts.