Dictation app for medical doctor's private clinics.

[GS Bhuvaneshwar]

Dear Developers of Simon

I am a retired Biomedical devices engineer who has been involved in development of implantable devices over the last 40 years.
With a basic degree in Electronics, I have always had interest in computers and programming — and have worked on data acquisition systems for a few of the PC based test systems  that I set up. I did some good bit of programming using Microsoft Qbasic —  way back in early 1990s  and have learnt some basics of C++.  Started on Java — but did not progress.

Having retired with time on my hands now, I am looking to do something creative work.

One of the problems I constantly see is the time spent by medical doctors’s in small clinics here in writing drug Prescriptions and treatment advice — and in most cases their handwriting is bad,  is illegible and difficult to decipher — but many doctors in India work late as demand for their services is still large from our huge population.
Doctors in rural areas and small towns generally have a home practice or set up two room clinic (waiting area and doctor’s office) — with one help to do the running around for them.

I was wondering if a Dictation type software on a small PC linked to a printer (which have become very inexpensive here in India) could help these Doctor’s print out their prescriptions quickly - save time and make it more readable for their patients.
While doing my homework on speech recognition, I came across your Website — and your demo is definitely very encouraging for a beginner like me.

I am presently using an Apple Macbook air — but also have a very old HP laptop on Win 7 32 bit — which is  slow — but could still be used probably.
If this project gets really going, I am willing to invest in more suitable hardware for building a demo prototype.

Would greatly appreciate your advice and inputs on how to get started — and what programming language i need to learn,  to get going on this project using Simon.
i know this is going to be challenging — but that is what I probably need to make my life interesting now !!

looking forward
warm regards
bhuvanesh


Dr. G.S.Bhuvaneshwar
Consultant Medical Devices - design, development, testing & QMS
www.gsbhuvanesh.in 
gs.bhuvnesh at icloud.com   (Mob) +91-94471 32251  (LL) +91-44-2457 1996
Adjunct Prof, Dept of Engg Design & Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Madras.
Former Head, Biomedical Technology Wing, SCTIMST, Trivandrum - 695012

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