[jtheory]

I'd suggest instead talking to the people who actually make buying decisions, and find out what other purchases they have approved recently (and how many other people needed to give approval -- e.g., the IT department), and why. Unfortunately I suspect the news will be discouraging.

Don't just try selling something that interacts with medical data unless you have serious quality control (you may need various ISO certifications in place) and a good grasp of privacy law. That's what many of the frustrating hospital purchasing rules are trying to ensure.

The reason that the healthcare world has so many problems with obvious software fixes that haven't been fixed is because they're very rightly paranoid about using unsafe software, because sometimes it kills people even when it's designed by a corporation with lots of quality control (cough cough THERAC-25), and not just a side-business with a doctor and a hired coder.

[akrasia]

I will be talking to the purchasing dept after I build a prototype to show the director. I am aware that this will be an uphill battle since everyone in healthcare is paranoid including doctors and admins.