The key to the next breakthrough idea

Drew Dernavich is one of the best cartoonists of all time.

In 2006, he was selected the country’s top magazine cartoonist and awarded the National Cartoonists Society award.

Back in the day, before cartoonists started making digital sketches, Dernavich was drawing cartoons the old-fashioned way—with a sharpie and paper.

A few years ago, when he was cleaning his house, he decided to organize his old, hand-drawn cartoons and divided them into two piles: the “yes” pile for the published ones and the “no” pile for the rejected ones.

The lesson is universal: Good ideas often follow bad ideas.

“When it comes to idea generation,” Adam Grant writes, “quantity is the most predictable path to quality.” Innovative thinkers fail a lot because they try a lot.

The same approach should be also adopted in healthcare as well. A very highly regulated field should not prevent new innovations to be developed.

The COVID-19 outbreak has spread its feathers of destruction around the globe with high infected caseloads and many fatalities. People with comorbidities are more prone to contracting COVID-19. Therefore, going to a hospital or clinic for treatment and diagnosis is not recommended for such people. To enable efficient care and quick diagnosis of patients with chronic illnesses, home diagnosis devices are a feasible option.

Today, we need to democratize and decentralize the medical imaging and monitoring ecosystem in health care. Pre-hospital monitoring should be done anytime, anywhere, instantly, and should be accessible by everyone in order to prevent overcrowding hospitals and save time.

Creating a decentralized medical imaging platform will help the patients to access decent health care anywhere, but also provide an opportunity for the doctor to stay connected with the patients that have critical health conditions like women's health conditions and lung-kidney problems.