Make Your Patients Feel Better Even Before They Leave Home to Their Appointment With You
Why?
When you decide to go to the doctor, most of the time it means you are worried about something. You become even more anxious when you leave home and arrive at the doctor’s office of your appointment. It might be useful to both patient and doctor to relieve at least some of this anxiety.
How?
You probably had this experience already: you had the appointment with your doctor, he prescribed some treatment, you leave, and you already feel better. You’re still sick, and nothing is “fixed” yet. You might even have to go to some further tests etc., but even your symptoms are not as acute. There is a psychological effect making you feel like this. It might be useful if you had some of this effect happen even before your visit. By calling your doctor, talking for a few minutes, you telling him why you are coming to see him shortly, and him listening and then assuring you in an authoritative way he’ll see you shortly, and you’ll continue from here, might have a similar effect – all before the visit.
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Always Fresh Books
Why?
Books, even ebooks are fixed things. What you get is a finite product of that edition. Most likely by the time you read it, at least some things have changed.
How?
Create a format that allows the author to push new editions to current buyers of previous versions. The reader will get an alert that he has now a new edition; a brief description of the changes and additions; and the possibility to read any of the editions published, and at any point also see the current text’s other edition versions.
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Get the Main Logical Points of an Article and Visually See Their Connections and Build Up
Why?
You read an article online and by the and you have an idea of what it was trying to say. But of you look at it again, all the main points and maybe also the logical sequences are buried inside a lot of text that at this time – after you understand it – is just in the way of seeing all the main points and their connections.
How?
A browser extension that allows you to select and highlight multiple sections in the article (text and graphics), and then rearrange them on a layer “above” the article in a way that visually demonstrates the connections and logical build up of the main idea or ideas expressed in the article. You can then save this as a new web page to any cloud solution you use (like Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), share it, print it, etc.
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Sunscribe to Someone’s Marginalia Feed
Why?
Reading a book and seeing someone’s marginalia gives a whole new experience to reading the book.
How?
Have a service that extracts your highlights and notes you make while reading ebooks. You can also input marginalia of real books you read. You then publish the feed to your marginalia and others can subscribe to it and see it on their ebook reader as they read the book. They can subscribe to marginalia from multiple people and see all of them while reading the book.
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Hyperlinking of Ebooks
Why?
It would be very beneficial if while reading a book you could not just highlight and make notes about a passage in the book, but also link it to another passage in another book.
How?
Have a new protocol for linking between ebooks. Something that is a standard and works on most platforms like iBooks, Kindle, etc. Make it possible to share these links with others.
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