{"id":758,"date":"2010-12-07T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carecloud.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:14:04","slug":"kinected-healthit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/kinected-healthit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinected Health IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft\u2019s new Kinect technology is all the rage among video gamers these days, but the technology behind the device is a smash hit amongst hackers and scientists most of all. With its multiple color and depth-sensing lenses, skeletal tracking system, and voice microphone array, these tinkering innovators see the Kinect technology as an incredible tool whose true purpose has yet to be discovered. Their experiments with the device got us thinking: Could the Kinect technology eventually make its way into healthcare IT?<\/p>\n

A Watching Machine<\/h2>\n

Microsft\u2019s Kinect is a gesture based controller, meaning you don\u2019t actually hold anything in your hand. The device uses an array of cameras and sensors to read and interpret your body movements. This differs from, say, an iPad, which requires you to make contact with the device. Kinect is meant to stay invisible and unnoticed while functioning. It sits there and watches, listens, feels for your input gestures.<\/p>\n

The unsung promise of gesture based controllers is their ability to process and interpret things happening in the physical world, a domain once reserved for living organisms like ourselves. These devices \u2018see\u2019 into our world, watch for specific types of movement, and process the corresponding data using specialized software. So, what does this mean for healthcare?<\/p>\n

Kinect the Docs<\/h2>\n

Imagine the physicians practice of the future<\/a>, with sensors based on the Kinect technology in every room connected to a futuristic version of a\u00a0medical practice management system<\/a>. Through the sensors, the system will know and process every action taken within the practice, silently performing many of the most tedious medical practice management duties.<\/p>\n

Think about it:<\/p>\n