How many times have you fallen ill, suffered a fall or experienced some other form of injury that sent you running to the emergency room only to discover it was a minor issue but now you have a $25,000 hospital bill to pay? And if you have children, have you ever rushed them to the doctor’s office, taking time away from work or other activities, only to be told it’s just an ear ache, or bruised ego, or a splinter in your child’s finger?
I think it is about time every household had access to a ‘medical detector’ that would allow you to scan the area of concern on your body, and get a read out, in the form of an image or text, of how extensive the injury is. Just as the defibrillator became available to the general public because of its life saving abilities, I believe an electronic medical detector would save thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of wasted resources.
When moms, dads, coach’s, nurses and anyone else who has access to the ‘medical detector’, a device the size of an IPad, or an IPhone, they can then visit online medical resources to make informed decisions about rushing to the emergency room or administering two aspirin to remedy the situation. *Searching the web provides specific information, including text, pictures and video on practically any topic. Users of the ‘medical detector’ can **Google, Bing, Ask or use any other website search engine to research the medical detectors diagnosis and administer minor treatments, or rush off to the doctor’s office based on their finding’s.
Since the average website user ***typically only uses two to three words in their text search, the ‘medical detector’ could also offer few words in its diagnosis, making it possible to offer more than one possible diagnosis and recommendation. More and more, people are ****publishing information on the web to share their experiences, success stories, adventures and just about anything you can think of. It would be nice to read online publications about lives being saved because time was of the essence and the ‘medical detector’ was available as an invaluable resource.
Of course certain precautions, disclaimers and other protective measures would have to be put into place however, we are becoming a society that wants information now and more and more, industry is finding ways to provide it. It is probably a short matter of time before you will be able to purchase your ‘medical detector’ at a retailer near you.
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*Pg 85 – Searching the Web
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I am glad to see that you put citations at the end of the article, that is a great habit to get into. For this specific type of product, i think that the industry will eventually move to a place where more medical diagnostics can be done within the home, but it does open up the doors for a lot of liability for the company that makes the device if it is not right about what is going on. I think that perhaps you could integrate the device into a health care provider that could also give some advice through perhaps a web cam or something similar to that. That way it is not completely reliant on technology.
ReplyDeleteEach thought is an idea worth exploring. What we find at the end could be something great. I think you have something great. Continue to let it evolve.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really good idea, especially for kids and elderly that have been in accidents. I think that this idea could be exemplified if you had a "twin" medical detector that also detects diseases and cancer cells. That would make your product so much more versatile and that much more valuable. But there would also be a lot of pressure on your medical detector to detect everything that can possibly go wrong in a human body. That might take a little longer to do.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really creative idea. Coming from someone who has gone to the doctor numerous times only to find out that it's something very minor, yet I still have to pay the bill, I would definitely appreciate a product like this. My only concern is how reliable something like this would be. Many injuries could look similar or yield similar side affects, yet be completely different in treatment. I am interested to see how accurate the readings would be.. but great idea!
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