Healthcare - Microsoft Futuristic Vision Web Video

I love these futuristic web videos. I posted the Nokia futuristic morph phone project web video on twitter and also the computer science recruitment film on the blog too. Here's an idealised vision of the future of healthcare. Producing films obviously makes Microsoft look good and have bloggers share them so having a tremendous network or indirect effect on us all and expedentially speeds change.  Researching this piece I found this futuristic page on stumblupon too.

Comments

[Byron Jones]

Maybe I am the one that will end up the old man that sits on the porch and shouts at those darned kids to "stay away from my lemon tree!", but when I see a video like that I feel little more than skepticism and in my mind I think, "What happens when shit goes wrong with this technology".

I also despise banks and drug companies acting like they care about you as a person.

Nice try Microsoft, but you gotta do better if you want to give me the warm and fuzzies.

[R. Francis Smith]

I think I'm with Byron Jones. Additionally, all I thought when the doctor scanned the guy's eye was "Sadly, that second-long eye scan costs $200 and his insurance doesn't cover it." Then I got a good long laugh at the $15 hemoglobin a1c test at the end.

Interesting how the whole thing focused so tightly on us diabetics, too. Good to know Microsoft's thinking of us.

[Dominique]

To say the least, interesting video. I recently read a couple articles on the 'future of healthcare' and managed to participate in rather good discussions on the subject. I agree with Byron and feel it's a large charade, in regards to Banks and Drug Companies caring about the little 'man', but being in the tech field myself - it's topics like this that get me to nudge my head in a little further in the discussion. Thanks for posting the video!

[sue]

not sure if the other commenters are from the states, but i am. i liked what i saw, not cynical about it. we don't have socialized medicine. ( and i truthfully don't see that we ever will). i am in the medical field and the one thing i kept thinking was that what hospital is going to pay out all the dough for this type of service? it's a long-long way off. a lot of hospitals dont even have electronic medical records yet.
thanks for the posting of the vid, thats futuristic medicine alright!