Technology Ideas for new medical devices?

[jlenoach]

Hi everyone,

My name is Jordan, I'm an electrical engineering student at Stanford University. I have had some experience building basic medical devices such as EEGs and I am currently searching for more novel ideas to pursue. For those of you who are experienced in any medical field, what are some of the problems and difficulties you typically face that could perhaps be solved with some device that does not exist yet?

My father who is an orthopedist has lately been trying to convince me that a multi-transducer ultrasound machine specialized for bone imaging would be something useful in disaster relief and military orthopedics due to the lack of portability of X-ray machines. Does this sound like a profitable idea?

Any suggestions, ideas, or comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

-Jordan

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[1UP]

Totally the wrong forum. Try either the Med. Student forum, or better would be the General Residency forum. Also, this post is kinda ridiculous. I can almost guarantee that no one here with any brains is just going to hand you an idea for a new device so you can make it and patent it while they get squat. That's not how the world works. With regard to the idea you have I don't really see much value. 99.9% of the time in the field it's either frankly obvious what bone is broken or it can be easily determined with minimal physical diagnosis, it doesn't matter what bone(s) are broken since you can stabilize and transport, or the patient is in such bad shape that taking the time to image for busted bones is low priority since they typically have other injuries that need to be treated promptly. Furthermore, the potential market for such a device is very small and the portability of x-ray machines has gotten far better over the last 20 years. Lastly, a little advice, don't create a user name using your full last name while signing your first name at the end, it makes it far too easy to figure out who you are IRL and less nice people could use that in not so nice ways.

Hi everyone,

My name is Jordan, I'm an electrical engineering student at Stanford University. I have had some experience building basic medical devices such as EEGs and I am currently searching for more novel ideas to pursue. For those of you who are experienced in any medical field, what are some of the problems and difficulties you typically face that could perhaps be solved with some device that does not exist yet?

My father who is an orthopedist has lately been trying to convince me that a multi-transducer ultrasound machine specialized for bone imaging would be something useful in disaster relief and military orthopedics due to the lack of portability of X-ray machines. Does this sound like a profitable idea?

Any suggestions, ideas, or comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

-Jordan

 

[jlenoach]

Thanks for the reply, sorry if this was an inappropriate forum