Week 9 - Database

We continued to discuss databases in class this week, so I will use this post to do some revisiting and updating of ideas.

The name of this blog is titled 'Images You Can Use' because the idea is every household would be able to purchase and use a hand held medical device, approximately the size of an iPhone, hereafter called the MD. The MD would greatly assist its' owners with determining a vast amount of information based on a scan of that persons injury or affected area. A brief description of information the MD would display on it's approximately 4x6 screen is: an image of the scanned area showing whether a muscle is bruise or a bone is fractured or broken, a persons temperature and whether or not they are congested with a cold or the flu, if an artery is clogged, and many other types of medical diagnosis. It would also show: recommendations for the infected area, whether the injury is minor or if further professional medical attention is needed. It would give the names of the injury's, brief medical definitions and recommend treatments. The GPS system would display the names, addresses and phone numbers of physicians, specialists and hospitals closest to the MD's current position, the new Apple Siri system would allow the owner to talk to the device if they needed to call for help or they could just dial the number on the telephone pad which would display in a smaller screen on the phone.

The display screen would show different information in different colors to make it easy for the owner to know if something was serious or not. For example, the color Red would always mean something was serious, the color Green would mean everything was ok, and the color Blue, well, we'll figure out what all the other multiple colors would mean. The MD will have a special instructions section explaining all of this for easy reference. Not only would images of scans display in this multi-color way, names and addresses would display in a similar way.

Once developed, this device would first be used in hospital or medical clinic settings to determine its effectiveness. Once 'tweaked' for improvements, it would be marketed to, and tested on adult professional athlete's such as bicyclist, climbers, boxers, football players and other professions where injury's are higher then the norm and where experienced, trained and qualified medical professionals would further test the MD on their athletes. Once 'tweaked' and improved again, the MD will be marketed to College and High School athletic departments, little league teams,d homes and other identified markets all across the country.

In conclusion, I believe the MD will show everyday people 'Images They Can Use' and would appreciate having. Making us all greater advocates for our own well being and for better health care.  Oh, and it has to be very affordable... which, of course, is a relative term.