QWERTY? Time to wave goodbye to 'Steam-Age' data entry...

We are a start up business operating in healthcare looking to solve the long standing challenge of writing on the fly clinical notes. Look at this way - is it not strange that in this hi-tech age that we still use a steam age interface to capture information?

Steam age because the QWERTY keyboard patents pre-date the automobile patents by a number or years. The layout was actually intended to make typing slow so that mechanical typewriters did not jam. My company's [Veloscient Ltd] aim is reduce the 1500 keystrokes to required to write a typical clinical note to about 50 screen taps,using any mobile device.

Speech recognition is also not the answer, as dictation is laborious. It takes a considerable amount of valuable end of day time and yet it still only captures analogue, unstructured information .

Being Surrey based I signed up here with the aim of developing relationships that may form part of our supply chain - be it in, for example, IT, copy writing, PR, customer service or other skills.

In particular we are interested recruiting a small, elite group of user testers. So please contact me if you have an interest. Part of the process allows a user to capture their content and knowledge, at this stage you don't need to be clinically knowledgeable - its far more important that you are interested in a new challenge and want to make a difference in helping us build a solution that leads to better, safer care.

Best wishes Simon.
simon@minotz.com