New Ideas - Sales Administration and Printing for Selfies

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
November 17, 2016

I sat beside a medical representative yesterday who was making a promo call on doctor.  He had with him an iPad instead of the usual call book or call log.   The doctor would merely sign on the touch sensitive touch screen to signify that the med rep has done his call.   This is connected on line to their sales admin office.  No reports to log no paper work,   His location is being monitored too via the GPS.  Neat eh.  We can use this for:

1.  Making the sales contract; and save on paper;
2.  The sales reports can be summarized from the contracts.  The sending of the docs by pouch can be saved too.
3.  Similar applications to :   interment service and chapel memorial service.

In the meantime, in Japan, Fuji films has come out and sold 5 million portable printer for selfies (and other photos of smartphone.  A single charge can print 100 pictures (and uses probably Polaroid like technology in printing. They plan to sell 6 million units next year.   Probably the market is limited to Japan only yet as of now?

Fujifilm instax smartphone printer SP - 1

NU 6 by Bong Canlas AGSB Clark Smartphone Application to Monitor Hospital Bill

Sir, good evening again.  Here is my 4th NU6.  Thanks again.  - Bong Canlas

Smartphone Application to Monitor Hospital Bill

By: Jose Tiburcio S. Canlas

Monitoring of hospital bills has not been easy for patients at Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center.  Actually, inquiries for billing updates may be made in the billing window that is provided for this purpose.  A billing clerk is designated to receive requests for billing updates.  When requested, the billing clerk will print the updated patient statement of account and give it to the requesting party.  The problem here is that, if you are a 142 bed capacity hospital, it is not surprising to see long lines in the billing window. This discourages some patient relatives in falling in line and making inquiries for billing updates.

We have heard many cases of patients or their relatives complaining that they were not aware that their hospital bill has reached such a high amount until the discharge time.  When this happens, patients or their relatives become angry and would normally ask for a meeting with any member of the management team to voice out their complaint.  It is such a waste of management time if this happens over and over again.  Worse, if the patients are really incapable of producing enough funds to settle the final hospital bill, the Credit and Collection Department would have no other option but to authorize the discharge of the patient after signing a promissory note. This adversely affects the liquidity of the hospital.

The solution I have thought regarding this problem is a smartphone application which will be installed to the smartphone provided by the patient upon admission.  This is not possible only for patients who cannot provide a smartphone. But that would be a rare case.  From the time of admission of the patient and the installation of the application, the hospital bill may be monitored from time to time.  The application will also include a calculator which can compute the estimated hospital bill of the patient for every additional day of stay in the hospital.

This installation of the hospital bill application can result to a lot of good things.  First, the patients and their relatives can effectively monitor the hospital bill.  If they find that they are exceeding their budget, they can request to be transferred to lower rate rooms or even to hospitals where rates are lower such as government hospitals.  Second, this will significantly reduce the complaints for unexpected high hospital bills which result to waste of management time.  Third, this will save on office supplies since there would be no need to print the patient statement of account. 4

New payWave technology from Citibank

 


We just learned yesterday that payWave technology is now being used by Citibank in the PHL  and such application was featured in the Business Life Section  of Philstar October 28, 2013

The credit card never leaves the hands of the owner of the card.  It thus finds usefulness in grocery purchases. All you have to do is wave and tap the credit card at the terminal. How about for restaurants and gas stations (where the crime vs credit cards are more rampant)?  Will they use wifi enabled terminals?

What does this use?  Proximity sensor?

We need more of this application for the train stations. So that those who are regular commuters can just wave and tap the load.  Can you use the cellphone (smartphone for this)?  (I think yes based on the Google image above)

                                     
                                                  

Nu12-5 Mark Tacbas Selling newspapers via QR code

Idea: Instead of newspaper vendor selling newspaper, sell a QR code that can be scanned by smartphones and load the latest news of the day.

Implementation: 

Instead of roaming around the streets of MetroManila and carrying heavy pages of newspaper or renting a space to display newspapers for the day, why not carry QR codes from newspaper companies and sell it per scan/ download? It's much lighter to carry, no need to print and no need for paper. You just need to bring your smartphone and QR code/s and your a walking news vendor. 4

NU12#5: E-Grocery App by Gio Mendoza

E-Grocery App

By: Gio Mendoza

Almost everybody is going online nowadays, online shopping, online check-in. With the emergence of smartphones, there are many "apps" that adds value by saving time and good for the environment as well with less paper or less travel is required. An app can be created to access and make your grocery thru your smartphone. You just select what you want to buy and you can also pay for it thru your credit card or for apple just keying in your passcode. You can have a choice of either pick-up or delivery. For pick up, you will just show your e-receipt or code and they will hand over your grocery bag. For delivery, you can choice time if evening or morning, you will just pay an extra charge. Now, you can do your grocery virtually and spend your time more productively rather than in queues or in the grocery floor.  4