DOCTORS! Software for Medical use ( NOT practice management)?

Question

Dear Doctors, my question is:
My company makes Vision Testing software and products ( the Computerized Eye Charts - you've seen the conventional chart - with letters- if you've ever been to an Eye Doctor).
I am thinking of expanding the business and I am wondering if there are other things my company can make - I do not want to sell instruments or complicated devices - I am looking to renovate and computerize something that has been so far done by old good means.
Dear Doctors ( not Ophthalmologists only), WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS? What would you like to have in your practice that would make your job easier and enhance your performance in terms of means of operation?
Is there ANYTHING that you use almost every day and think to yourselves:" It is year 2006, there has to be SOMETHING better that this ... thing" ?
Please, help.
I would be very grateful for any ideas, thought.
Thank you very much.

How about something not that High Tech?
Lets say something that is done by an old good bustling machine that can use some SOFTWARE being integrated into it?

Answer 1

I need a fundus camera of the size of a cell phone which measures the size and location of hemorrages and exudates.

Answer 2

As a Junior Achievement Volunteer, I had an opportunity to present JA materials to a group of Pre-K students at an elementary school. During my time with them, I noticed that one of the students had a conjunctivitis (pink eye) infection. Well, while exploring the contagious elements of conjunctivitis, I began to develop an interest in color-blindness. There is an article in the current Better Homes and Gardens magazine (September 2006 p. 256) on the topic, too.

I believe that public school systems could benefit greatly by having testing sheets available to determine which students, if any, have color vision deficiencies. I learned from the article that boys have a higher probability of it than girls and that it can affect may aspects of a child's education. Once it is diagnosed, it is easier to accept the child's inability to distinguish blue from green for example.

It would be inexpensive to create. You would need to speak with a patent attorney regarding the intellectual property aspects of it. There may be less expensive methods than you could provide. For example there is a page about it (along with samples) in most reference encyclopedias. So, it would be up to you to educate the educators on the benefits of having their students tested for visual discrepancies. Also, it may be of greater service to State Agencies that monitor and control the issuance of motor vehicle licenses. I understand that street "lights" are sometimes a problem.

Good luck with your endeavors...you may want to develop this idea to benefit children and young people to learn to cope with CVD or to verify that they are normal. Whew! That's a triangle over a circle! Shapes work better with young children who may not have numerical proficiency, yet.

Just imagine a nation-wide tour visiting every school and speaking to teachers about the importance of visual testing...with Governor's and Department of Education's approval, of course. Who knows, you could feasibly find a teacher or two with a secret visual deficiency...by passing out testing transparencies.