Comments on: Curing Cancer

By: thegoose

thegoose — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:49:46 +0000

Just a follow up on this. I managed to get an innovation voucher to look into this whole area. Next step is to find someone to spend it with. You can find out more on innivation vouchers at …

http://www.innovationvouchers.ie/

By: thegoose

thegoose — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:04:18 +0000

There are bajillions of reminder applications out there, but the research seems to indicate it is more of a question of education rather than plain old reminding. With that in mind, I’d guess you’d need something that helped the education process. eg: if you have more than 3 pills left in your med bottle right now, you’re at a 30% greater risk of dropping dead by Wednesday.

I think the way to do it would be to build a specific reminder system per type of med. The genius would be in designing communication that spoke to that specific audience in a way that got the message across.

Can I take an advance?

By: Ellen Dudley

Ellen Dudley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:48:05 +0000

Interesting idea. Traditionally it’s fear that makes people determined to take medication, but quite rightly, as the fear wanes when you don’t “feel” sick, then you forget, or put it off.

Does it have to be specific to a certain drug? I could think of a lot of other applications for this, not just medication, but for health supplements, or breathing exercises for asthma etc, that become more difficult to do the further away from symptoms that you are.

If you can find a drug company that is going to see huge dividends from such technology, and you can prove it, then you may be on to something, but as you say, its a hard sell, and then the problem always comes down to patient adoption, and implementation etc. Maybe if you pitched it to a charity?

I would love something that would remind me and encourage me to take all of the things that I have declared necessary for my daily health.

You have your first customer, but I’m only willing to pay a euro a month for it