My new direction is centered around developing basic medical specialty applications (apps), which would facilitate a basic understanding of specialty-based medical care by rural-based clinicians. This basic digital assistance would allow a higher quality of health care to reach many rural Americans that can't otherwise reach the big city specialists. Perhaps specialty care delivered by general practitioners is better than no care at all?
While beginning this project's proposal writing process, I will simultaneously secure an organization that will accept me as an advocate. I will write the proposal in accordance with the class schedule. In the event that I am am to pry some money out of the USDA's Telemedicine Grant Program, I feel confident that the following timeline is feasible:
a.) 1 month to arrange a few industry thought-leaders
b.) 2 months to gather data and compose a medical algorithm for psoriasis
c.) 1 month to develop app template and data (iphone & Blackberry based)
d.) 1 month to secure freelance SDK software programmer and start work
e.) 1 month to build app which is content rich, not technically complex
f.) 1 month beta testing and legal review
g.) 1 hour to call Steve Jobs & tell him that I need an iPad for the project :)
g.) LAUNCH!
I wonder if you would have more success securing an organization for which to write and thus, a viable sponsor if you focused more not on what you would like to create in the form of an app, but instead allow the organization to tell you what their funding priorities are and then writing based on that. Maybe I've read your blog posts wrong, but it seems to me that you've got a project that you would like to fund, but no organization yet who also has that same project as one of their priorities. Just a thought.
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