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Search and filter 65 real business problems from workers across every industry. App ideas group related problems into buildable product concepts.
App Ideas (2)
View allTheraFlow Supervisor
An opportunity to create a tool that helps physical therapy clinical instructors manage high concurrent patient loads while integrating student supervision, reducing burnout and unpaid overtime. This addresses the gap where current software focuses on scheduling/billing but not real-time workload balancing in busy rehab settings.
“A home health physical therapist needs more creative treatment ideas to fill 30-45 minute sessions beyond standard exercises.”
“Physical therapists in outpatient private practices cannot provide one-on-one care due to insurance reimbursement cuts, forcing them to treat multiple patients simultaneously, which compromises patient outcomes.”
NurseCompanion: Real-time Clinical Decision Support
New graduate nurses often feel overwhelmed, anxious, and unprepared, particularly in high-stakes situations like deciding when to escalate to a physician, managing difficult patient interactions, or handling behavioral crises. There is a lack of accessible, real-time, decision-support tools tailored to their needs that provide psychological reassurance and structured guidance.
“A new nurse is anxious about shift preparation due to fear of the unknown and potential medical errors.”
“Non-psych nurses lack training and tools for managing complex milieu crises on behavioral health wards, including prolonged de-escalation and post-crisis stabilization.”
Individual Problems
PacuFlow Task Dashboard
A PACU nurse lacks a centralized dashboard in EPIC for tracking post-operative vitals, assessments, and pre-op tasks in procedural areas, unlike the inpatient Brain functionality.
ClinicFinder Pro
A person building a patient resource cannot easily find therapy clinics in the Midwest that offer maintenance programs for chronic conditions like SCI, MS, and TBI, especially those using advanced technology.
HuddleFlow
Nursing unit huddles waste 10-15 minutes per shift reciting a long, repetitive script that staff feel is unnecessary and demeaning.
CatheterPath
Nurses are unable to get foley catheter orders for patients who require repeated straight catheterizations, leading to patient suffering and increased infection risk.
NurseDash
A new graduate nurse on a med-surg/tele unit struggles to quickly access medication information and task schedules, resorting to a manual paper 'brain sheet' to supplement the EHR.
TherapySpark
A home health physical therapist needs more creative treatment ideas to fill 30-45 minute sessions beyond standard exercises.
PBD Conversion Mentor Hub
Medical student lacks practical knowledge about provider-based department (PBD) conversions and seeks real-world insights into hidden pitfalls that may affect qualification.
ShiftReady Nurse
A new nurse is anxious about shift preparation due to fear of the unknown and potential medical errors.
ProviderVerify
A nurse accidentally communicated with and followed orders from the wrong physician because the correct provider was not clearly identified in the assignment system.
NurseSense AI
Nurses feel that algorithms controlling staffing, acuity, and alerts override their clinical judgment and negatively impact patient care and job satisfaction.
StreamCatch
Healthcare workers struggle to collect midstream urine samples from patients with limited mobility or who cannot self-collect, leading to messy and inefficient collection attempts.
SepsisGuard ER Decision Support
An ER failed to fully evaluate and treat a patient with signs concerning for sepsis after recent neck surgery, discharging her prematurely without clear communication or follow-up.
MedGuardian
A nurse realizes she may have incorrectly crushed extended-release medications due to an outdated EMAR and unclear medication administration instructions, potentially harming patients.
NeuroNurse Assist
An AuDHD nurse in a small surgical clinic struggles with the memory, task-switching, and pressure demands of scrub and pre-op roles, and fears burnout without accommodations or strategies.
RehabSteward
A physical therapist is concerned that an outpatient clinic is re-admitting recently discharged patients with new scripts, which they view as overutilization without a documented decline or new incident.
CI Balance Scheduler
A physical therapist in a rehab mill struggles to balance high concurrent patient loads and group sessions while trying to provide quality clinical instruction to a student, resulting in exhaustion and unpaid overtime.
NurseEscalate Clinical Decision Support
A new graduate nurse on a med-surg/tele step-down unit lacks clinical judgment to know when a patient's condition warrants contacting the physician, fearing appearing incompetent or causing unnecessary interruptions.
AcuityAdjust
Nurse managing multiple patients on a med-surg floor finds it difficult to safely manage time and attention when one patient requires intensive insulin drip monitoring (Q1 glucose checks, IV fluids, potassium replacement) while also caring for other patients.
CareChange Hub
A nursing student faces resistance from a colleague when trying to change a resident's stoma care system to reduce skin breakdown caused by daily one-piece appliance changes.
ClinicMate Free EMR
Free clinic needs a cost-effective electronic medical records system and prescription handling process for uninsured patients.
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