You're misreading. I'm not moonlighting. That's my job. My IT/Development team consists of 4 people, including myself. 3 of us, including myself, have developed a game changing piece of software that has US Government recognition within the first 4 years of its existence.
It would be fun to know what kind of software that is lol.
The most famous software in medical area I know about, lately, is a kind'a game that makes people find malaria infected cells.
In Sweden, what kind of software that probably need to be developed is good software for medical records - prefeably (imho) open source so all counties can afford it (no steep license fees that cause some counties to go for another solution).
What usually gets in the papers here about medical technology is pretty much midication research, and some years ago a laser controlled knife (from a company called "Sectra" if I remember right). Unfortunately it's been going downhill for the former big swedish medicin companies (Astra(/Zeneca), Pharmacia (p'n'u)), to a degree it's because swedish government has started to press prices by only buying cheapest medecin on the market, so companies who are actually developing new medication (but whose producs were slightly more expensive) gets less money.
I guess though tere are other areas where software is involved aswell. Maybe automatic interpretation of x-ray pictures, firmware for pacemakers, and embedded software in EKG equipment.
It's not always competition, controlled by strict beaurocratics, leeds to better service. In a few communties, the local taxi company (providing public taxi service) survived by the rides that was paid by the community (typically disabled and elderly getting subsidised fee to be able to get to the grocery store and to the hospitals and such, and school children getting ride to school). But as the public services started to go ask for the cheapest possible service, specialized companies took over who only do rides ordered by the community agency, the local taxi companies went out of business (if they used to have business say 08:00-16:00 by tax paid rides and 19-21 from private persons wanting a ride, they can't survive from the orders they get 19-21 alone). You can say that "in that case g good that taxi service was shut down", but if you think a step further, working taxi service makes it easier for people who do get drunk to get home without sitting behind their own wheel, and young drunk people doesn't get lost and freeze to death in the middle of the winter, and small local companies can get customers who doesn't have to drive all the way, let's say the customer lives on the other side of the country and has flewn 90% of the way).
(Some degree of buearaucratics is needed to curb things like bribes and a community rep doing business with someone he knows from his "golfclub" without asking aroudn for a lower price - but unfortunately that happens anyway, with or without rules. Only thing that can curb *that* is active media (press, radio, TV)...)