OT Equipment Loan Closet Manager.
An app idea for occupational therapy clinics.
A lightweight system for clinics that lend adaptive equipment to track who has what, due dates, and condition, replacing the notebook or spreadsheet.
What the search found
- Who pays
- OT clinic owner
- The problem
- Clinics lend walkers and shower chairs on a notebook or spreadsheet and lose track of what went out and when it is due back. Staff spend time chasing returns and equipment quietly disappears.
- The gap
- The results show loan closet programs and directories, plus generic inventory complaints, but no product built for small clinic lending with borrower, due date and condition tracking.
- Already out there
- Iowa Compass loan closet tip sheet iowacompass.org
A directory and explainer of loan closet programs. No software.
- Alpha One Adaptive Equipment Loan Program alphaonenow.org
A lending program listing equipment types. It is a service, not a tracking tool.
- Howard County Loan Closet howardcountymd.gov
A county DME reuse program. Shows the lending model exists at scale but describes no tracking software.
- Iowa Compass loan closet tip sheet iowacompass.org
- People asking for it
- Loan equipment tracking thread reddit.com
Someone asking for a tool to track loan equipment sent to clients, listing ID, status, location, ship and return dates.
- Medical equipment inventory thread reddit.com
Hospital staff say their medical equipment inventory is managed in Excel sheets, which makes it hard to keep updated.
- Spreadsheet asset tracking thread reddit.com
People looking for simple asset management that only does what they want and stays flexible.
- Loan equipment tracking thread reddit.com
- The big assumption
- That clinic owners feel enough pain from lost equipment to pay monthly, rather than accepting the loss as a cost of doing business.
- Test it this week
- Call five clinic owners you know and ask how many items went missing last year and what that cost. If nobody can answer, the pain is not tracked and likely not felt.
Check your own market first.
This idea was checked for occupational therapy clinics in general. Your city, your contacts and your buyers change what is open. Run the free search to see the gaps that fit you, or book a call to talk it through.
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- Gap found
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