Smart-Phone Makers Call the Doctor. Apple, RIM See Opportunity in Medical Field.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009There is a HUGE opportunity for Apple in dentistry. Most major Dental Practice Management and Imaging Software Platforms are pc-based, closed source, bulky and require huge capital expense for in-office hardware, software and ongoing maintenance. Two Henry Schein (NYSE) subsidaries, Dentrix and EZDental, are examples.
We are developing 1dentist Software to offer lean, Open Source Cloud Computing and SaaS. Our early data shows significant interest from dentists within our 500 dentistry urls worldwide at 1dentist.com.
And even Kodak should refocus on open source digital medical and dental imaging, e.g. CT, MRI, x-ray and photography. Dexis (Danaher) currently has significant market share of dental imaging and is closed source.
I agree with Mr. Borges. Our ten years of internal internet data on dentists confirms this inability to understand and/or unwillingness to spend money on technology. At www.1dentist.com we believe the future in EMR is FREE and we are working in that direction.