The room for growth in IT in health is absolutely astounding. I have a friend working on a kiosk style device. If you're interested, email me.
One problem is regulation. To get "in the loop" at offices, some things need to be clarified. A simple example: when an insurance company pays for a specialist to give you an x-ray, which of the three parties owns the data? Another problem is secure access to private information. Another friend was working in IT at a hospital, and they almost got sued because they didn't follow proper procedures when copying data -- between servers for regular/transparent backups!
Remember that 'rate your lawyer' site and the flurry of lawsuits that followed? This is another one of those risky startups. Good luck to you but beware negativity...
"I like forums and blogs here, it's really an informative to non-medico, and you can get lots of information in forum in different categories. This gives more traffic to website. Also blogs are very much informative in s similar capacity. Even I got lots of information cancer and pregnancy."
One problem is regulation. To get "in the loop" at offices, some things need to be clarified. A simple example: when an insurance company pays for a specialist to give you an x-ray, which of the three parties owns the data? Another problem is secure access to private information. Another friend was working in IT at a hospital, and they almost got sued because they didn't follow proper procedures when copying data -- between servers for regular/transparent backups!
It's a mess.