Medicine built to be seen, heard, and felt — by everyone who practices it.
Covington MedTech Consulting helps hospitals, medical schools, and health technology vendors design clinical tools and workflows that work for physicians with visual impairments — not as an accommodation bolted on afterward, but as a standard built in from the start.
Clinical software assumes every clinician can see it.
Electronic health records lean on dense visual dashboards, color-coded alerts, and mouse-driven navigation. Diagnostic imaging is inherently visual. Medication reconciliation screens, physical exam templates, even hospital paging systems are usually built for sighted use by default.
Talented clinicians hit walls that have nothing to do with medical skill.
Physicians and trainees with visual impairments face avoidable barriers to training, licensure, hiring, and daily practice. Almost every one of those barriers is a design problem, not a competence problem — which means it's a solvable one.
Consulting built around real clinical workflows, not generic accessibility checklists.
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EHR and clinical software audits
We review electronic health records, imaging platforms, and hospital IT systems against real clinical tasks — not just automated compliance scans — and hand back a prioritized, practical fix list.
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Workflow and assistive technology integration
We match individual clinicians with the right combination of screen readers, braille displays, voice documentation, and image-description tools, then help build that setup into daily practice.
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Policy and accommodation guidance
We advise hospitals, residency programs, and medical schools on accommodation processes that hold up under scrutiny and actually support the clinicians who need them.
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Care team training
We prepare care teams to work alongside visually impaired colleagues — covering communication, shared documentation, and shift handoffs — so accommodation becomes routine, not remarkable.
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Health tech advisory partnerships
We work directly with vendors building EHRs, imaging software, and clinical devices, embedding accessibility into product design before launch rather than retrofitting it after complaints arrive.
Most of what's needed is available today. It's just rarely built into clinical settings.
Screen readers and braille displays adapted for EHR navigation, so chart review doesn't depend on a mouse.
AI-assisted image description for radiology and pathology, producing structured verbal or braille summaries of key findings.
OCR and document-to-speech for scanned records, faxes, and handwritten notes that would otherwise be invisible to a screen reader.
Voice-driven documentation built directly into EHR workflows, rather than a separate tool clinicians have to reconcile by hand.
Tactile and audio diagnostic devices, including talking pulse oximeters and tactile anatomical models for exam and teaching use.
Accessible interface redesign, applying WCAG standards adapted for the stakes and speed of clinical software.
Ready to talk through what this looks like for your organization?
We start with a conversation, not a sales pitch — about where your systems are today and what your clinicians and patients actually need.
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