Ulrich Schrader's Website

Thanks to @virtuate for bringing this YouTube video to my attention. It is part of a presentation dcaron about Healthcare 2.0. It is an interesting vision that lines up very well with Microsoft's Health Vault Project of a web-based health record.

Another player in the field with a similar lineup is Google with their web-based health record Google Health and the possibility to offer health related services over the Google phone with the Android operating system that is open for externally developed applications.

It will be interesting to see, whether the two companies with their resources will have a go in Germany, and whether this will effect the German health card project.

 An indication that this kind of technology might not be that far away, is the TED-talk by Pattie Maes of the MIT Media Lab. She shows a working prototype that gives you access to the internet and a display. All you need is a surface. Your access to the internet acts like a new sense to the world of digital data. The prototype is controlled by natural hand gestures. Very fittingly it is called 'SixthSense'.