It’s Free Idea Friday! So, today’s inspiration is my doctor’s visit this morning. I thought it’d be fun to “futurize” my visit today.
Check-in: So my doctor’s office is pretty advanced in that they have a automated call that calls me in the day before to see if I’m still going. I have a feeling that, it’s probably an arm and a leg for this service. A much better approach would be an integrated online internet based appointment service for doctors (and anybody actually), that would hook into Google Health and use twillio to call the user before the appt. It would also be great if it stored all the user’s cc info and knew my copayment info, so I wouldn’t even have to bother filling out the payment info, and I could just come and go, and I would get auto-billed.
Doctors Info: I love my doc, but she’s probably overwhelemed and not always aware of everything that’s going on with me. I’d love an integrated iPad application that would load all my information from Google Health, run some magical AI against it and some collected data of other users, to early warn me of signs of any diseases.
Blood Tests: I feel like blood tests are the core date measure of my health. However, it’s near impossible to get a weekly blood test. So why not offer a service that monitors your blood test by providing a weekly (maybe too much)/ monthly test. I’d believe that health and data freaks would really be interested to know what is going on in their body on a up-to-date basis. this integrated with info above may provide some more data points for health analysis.
Urine Tests: This is probably a little gross, but i wonder if its possible to make toilets smarter, by applying some technology to toilets to allow them to sample/test urine after I go to the bathroom. Just a thought…
Applications/Integration with Google Health: I think this is a huge area where we could improve. Currently there’s no way for me to know what my health situation was, say 7 years ago. I don’t even remember the doctor that operated on my bad knee, nor can I find out his name with out calling my previous health insurance provider. There’s also no guarantee that my previous insurance provider has kept that information. Ideally I’d like to link my health insurance companies with Google Health so that I can always have an up-to-date record of what has happened to me. If that can’t happen I’d like a service which would intercept all my health data, and log it for me. This way i’d know what had happened to me, who operated on me, what was going on at the time and what if anything needs to be done in the future.
Boring Doctor’s offices: Ipad gaming – based on health questions. Ipad’s that you can take to watch videos/read magazines. Locations based ads that would show up to inform you of sales/free samples of things in the area where doctors could be affiliates and make ad revenue from.
that was fun! thoughts? comments?
