I have had the privilege of attending a couple of events at which new ideas in Health Care delivery were discussed as well as the issues of an aging population. The issues are huge, the Baby Boomers are getting older but they are going to want to keep active and they are going to expect to have anything and everything fixed. A self-serve mentality is increasingly the norm among all demographics now, and the health care industry is starting to respond. For example, Google and Microsoft (via HealthVault) already allow you to store and manage your health records online and connect you to health services.
At both of these events, I got to watch the following video. I never get tired of watching the cool tech they show in action. According to a Microsoft presenter that introduced this back in the fall, all this tech is currently working, albeit in prototype form, in the Microsoft Labs.
(A higher-resolution version of the video is available directly from Microsoft)
Tags: ehealth, google health, healthvault, microsoft
