Ask HN: Frustrated with Health-Data Silos?

2 iaftb 2 5/20/2025, 11:12:40 PM
I’m a practicing physician building an open-source prototype for unifying personal health data (wearables, lab results, patient-portal notes). Before I write any code, I’d like to hear from people who actually live the "health data scattered everywhere” problem.

What I’m looking for • You wear a tracker daily (Ōura, Garmin, Whoop, Fitbit, Apple Watch, etc.). • You log in to a patient portal or similar at least once a year to view labs / visit summaries. • You can spare 15 minutes for a Zoom call sometime in the next 10 days.

What’s in it for you • A $15 coffee gift card (or equivalent) as a thank-you. • No sales pitch—this is pure discovery.

Discussion topics (if we match) 1. How you use your wearable day to day. 2. Where you check labs/notes and what frustrates you. 3. Any “if only all this data lived in one hub” moments.

If interested, email simplehealth64@gmail.com with title “HN health data” in the subject; include your preferred times. I’ll reply within 24 hours with a calendar invite.

Happy to answer questions here as well—thanks!

Comments (2)

allears · 12h ago
This concept sounds like it has serious privacy and security issues. Where is the data being aggregated? Who has access to it? Who owns and controls it?
sherdil2022 · 12h ago
Reminds me of this - https://xkcd.com/927/