Projects
From an Idea to a Product
These are some of the healthcare challenges our teams are currently exploring through internal FISH projects. As ideas develop, some may continue into competitions, showcases, and future opportunities.
What This Page Shows
The ideas we are actively building around
FISH projects begin as internal team efforts centered on real healthcare needs. Members research the problem, explore constraints, and work toward practical, frugal solutions that could create meaningful impact.
Some projects stay as internal development experiences, while others may grow into competition submissions, pitches, or longer-term design work as they mature.
How projects move forward
Teams typically move from problem understanding and ideation into narrowing down, design work, testing, and refinement. That process helps us decide which ideas are best suited for further development and possible external submission.
Project 01
Parkinson’s Disease Tremors Device
The progression of Parkinson’s Disease, a slow-onset neurodegenerative disease, often leads to strong hand tremors that make everyday tasks difficult or impossible to complete. Current solutions are often expensive and invasive, and so we hope to create a device to help patients with a specific daily task in order to improve quality of life and confidence.
Project 02
Cautery Knife
Electrocautery devices, while essential for cutting tissue during surgery, produce surgical smoke (diathermy plume) that contains toxic, carcinogenic, and infectious airborne particles. Inhaling smoke from cauterizing just 1 gram of tissue is equivalent to smoking six unfiltered cigarettes. To better serve both patients and providers, we hope to create an integrated, user-friendly cautery knife that actively minimizes smoke generation and removes it at the source.
Project 03
Eyedropper Device
Patients cannot reliably and easily administer necessary eye medications on their own due to the difficulty of using current eye drop applicator bottles. Even supposedly accessible packaging is difficult to use, in some cases even more difficult than normal packaging due to the dexterity and grip strength needed to apply them. Moreover, inaccurate application can waste up to half the bottle. We hope to create a device to attach to eye medicine bottles which will help patients confidently and accurately apply their medicine directly to the eyes.
Project Flow
From internal idea to possible competition submission
Our projects usually move through a shared process: recruitment, ideation, narrowing down, consolidation, research, development, testing, and submission. This helps teams build momentum while keeping each project grounded in real need and practical progress.
