Excel programming question

[user123]

Hello


I am working on a electronic logbook application for the medical
industry. This will be used in-house at a major hospital for use by
both doctors and patients.

This application will be in many ways similar to the various
aviation/pilot electronic logbooks that exist.

The timeframe for the logbook will be tracking a 2 year period, on a
daily basis.

The patient will enter his daily activities in the logbook, based on
time of day, which each day broken down into one hour segments.

This will be excel based (unless a better platform exists) and will
feature various options, based on the patients illness, such as "meds
due on ___ date", etc.

Also, an area dedicated to patient progress will be needed, such as
"Completed XXX exercises today, lifted XXXX weight on date ____"

The user ideally could graph or chart his progress based on entered
values.

Also, blackberry/PDA capability and Spanish language capability is
desired. I know this is asking alot....

Guys, could you please post recommendations on how to hire an outside
programmer to do this? Also, please discuss US or overseas solutions
(India, etc)....this project has a minimal budget. Any
companies/programmers/developers in the Excel community that come
recommended? Or is this something the Average Joe could do with a few
Excel how-to books from the Library? Project timeline is completion by
mid-2006.

Thanks

Bill
logbookproject[REMOVE](AT)yahoo.com