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As a doctor in a third-world country, do you have any needs that could be solved by a simple web app? I'd be happy to build it if it could be of use to you and you can sell it to local medical practices.

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This is an idea that I think of everyday but I can't find an answer because of these reasons

Most doctors have a very poor IT knowledge. Most of them know only to use Facebook

Most patients are elderly people, or people with extrame poverty. They either don't have the knowledge facilities or the money to pay for such a services.

Most of the work in hospital are still done by painful paper work. But making hospitals computerize has failed.

I work in a hospital and I can say that COVID has pushed the transition to telemedicine like nothing else could. Many clinics were forced to see their patients over telemedicine and are realizing it worked. Prior to COVID physicians would have never agreed to it, but COVID forced this expeirement. The thing that needs to catch up is the fee guidelines that allow physicians to charge for telemedicine visits. It often isn't outlined properly so physicians are hesitant to transition when they fear an audit will result in a big headache.

Pre COIVID I knew a lot of physicians who would have loved to provide telemedicine. The problem was insurance wouldn’t pay for it (in the US). Now I the state where I live is it temporarily mandated by the governor that insurance must pay for it. Hopefully this becomes permanent.

> Most of the work in hospital are still done by painful paper work.

Sounds like there is something simple I could build.

> But making hospitals computerize has failed.

Can you figure out why?

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