During Thanksgiving weekend I managed to cut the skin off one of my knuckles with a box knife. The next day I went to the new (two year old) Pasadena Urgent Care facility down the hill.
They first chastised me for not coming in right away and then patched it up using dermabond, put on a splint and gave me an instruction sheet, and this is the part that interests the ideapreneur, which they had just printed from the internet.
This is a big improvement. It wasn’t too long ago that if they gave you instructions at the clinic they were copies of copies or hand written notes. I immediately saw two business opportunities from this nascent new method.
- Provide a dedicated printer/computer to clinics with all of the current data/instruction sheets preloaded for them.
- Build a program that immediately sends the data/instruction sheet to the persons iPhone, email or other device. It could even have a confirmation and help link.
These are both good ideas for products that are in one of the fastest growing US market, Medical Care. Both of them would tend to lower costs and increase efficiency.
BTW The Urgent Care facility was a real eyeopener for me. I felt like I saw the future of healthcare, and it looked pretty good. More later on this.