Wireless Wellness

These dayz there is lot of buzz surrounding imminent marriage between IT and healthcare services. Wireless wellness being the latest one. Now there is lot of room for improvements in healthcare processes and companies are working fervently to come up with inovative ideas that can reduce costs and make health services more reliable and efficient. There are already US based companies like bodymedia who are developing systems that will actually predict any untoward health related incident that might take place based on physiological data collected in realtime! (atleast this is what they r hoping for!!)
Now as i understand this sudden rush to implement end-to-end health care system..complete with integrated healthcare portal, real-time wireless diagnostic devices, panic buttons and even those fancy CDMA LG phone with glucometer (along with personal korean nurse! :D :D) all these companies are actually banking on catering to millions of Baby Boomers who will require medical attention in near future. They (PEOPLE, baby boomers) are the main reason investors are pouring millions into new start-ups in a hope to make killing when these services get implemented!
These company and Healthcare institutes can ignore PEOPLE factor on their own perill, they are doom to failure if they do so. without much consideration given to People factor; the main cornerstone that will fund this whole industry gradually, these implementation will be fancy and c00l gadgets to have but without providing any real ROI and use. So far the solutions i have seen look promising but there is still long way to go before i can say that they are people friendly, an Old guy wouldnt like to trouble shoot his wireless router or computer to send his Physio stats to centeral HEalth Portal in normal condition setting aside when he is under heart attack!!
There is lot of research going on in Intel and GE about People factor, so we can all hope to see friendly solutions in near future! :)