Details of Good Idea: Computerized MedicineThis document provides further detail on the topic of computerized medicine. If you are interested in this and want to help make it reality, please contact me (Thomas Stobie). | |
ForewordI believe that a significant opportunity exists today that is not being addressed anywhere to deliver a good solution that really will help medical professionals by putting information (in the level of detail that they desire) at their fingertips in a uniform comprehensive manner and to share this information to involved professionals. I lack both the finances and contacts to make it a reality. I believe that we can find numerous physicans will to share what they want and how they envision how things fit together, IT professionals are available and given good guidance, can produce an excellent system, years ahead of anything in the market. This would move medicine from the paper age (of information) to the computer age with the corresponding improvement in usability, integration, and cross-referencing. Patient care should improve significantly. |
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The Need for Computerized Medicine | |
First, I will try to look at the need for computerized medicine and the tasks that it can accomplish or significantly improve.
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Requirements of Computerized Medicine | |
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Technical Approach to Deliver Comprehensive Computerized MedicineBelow I have listed the high-level technical tasks required to bring out comprehesnive computerized medicine. | |
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Coordination and oversight between the various project teams is essential as well as the leadership of a good overall technical project director. Note that once a high-level enterprise model including metadata is developed, more focused development can occur in specific areas, so a phased implementation is possible. Depending on how the undertaking is done, it may be possible to leverage existing products to fulfill many of these roles. |
Business Aspects of the Venture | |
This sort of undertaking requires a solid commitment to do the necessary upfront work and develop an adaptable and evolvable system.
Venture Options
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Additional Business AspectsThis is a multi-year effort with a least of year of preliminary work, but once conmmercialized should return the initial investment very quickly. A phased implementation approach will be used to provide an earlier commercial product which will evolve over time into the comprehensive system.First to market with a comprehensive solution will dominate the market worldwide and set the standards for those to follow. I would conservatively say profitable within four years, and very profitable within six years (it could be sooner). An established firm providing clincal software may be able to leverage existing products to provide aspects of the undertaking shortening the overall development requirements and advancing the profitability of the undertaking. |
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© 2002-2003 by Thomas A. Stobie, SFO
Last modified on 5 Feb 2002.