Microsoft Surface Demo for Patient Consultation

This video shows the introduction of a Microsoft service application made for the healthcare industry. It is an interactive, multi-touch screen application that helps doctors explain complex medical procedures to patients. It also is a way for patients to communicate important information to their doctors.

Both patients and doctors just need to place their healthcare card on the surface, and the application recognizes who they are and information about them. When doctors log on, they are given choices such as test results, reports, etc. When the patient logs on, they have choices such as x-rays, prescriptions, family history, etc. On the screen there is a display of the human body which can be altered to look at the different systems. Doctors and patients can work together to share and talk about x-rays. The doctor can magnify pictures, show videos, and use the human body to help explain procedures.

This is a great idea. The touch screen is fascinating and the ability of the cards to recognize the users and provide the correct information is great. I am only concerned with the privacy issue. Although the patient’s information is in a secure system called Health Vault, I am concerned about losing the card. Maybe they will advance it to fingerprints along with the card. Anyway, this is a great advancement and can help clarify certain procedures.