What I thought about on my walk this morning... the future of TV and Healthcare

Imagine if technology could monitor grandma’s health status while she’s at home.  Changes to her health status triggered physicians in advance – perhaps you catch that stroke before it hits!  What’s more, she doesn’t need someone take her to the hospital for a checkup, because she can video chat with her physician from her living room.

Imagine if there were no more channels from the cable company.  What if your TV was a platform to host apps.  These apps could be virtual channels for ESPN, Fox News, etc.  What if we had healthcare apps that communicated to a medical device [like a smart watch] that took your vitals, which were monitored by your physician remotely.

What if physicians had virtual call centers and standard protocols were used to create, store, and modify healthcare records?!

Let’s take a closer look…

Home Environment

The television, computer, and tablet are merged into 1 media platform, the vTV!  The vTV doesn’t have channels, it has virtual channels (apps) that you can subscribe to.  For example, you don’t get a ton of useless channels from the cable company – you subscribe to the vChannels you want. i.e. ESPN, Fox News, etc.

Of course everyone would need high speed Internet access, but agents would provide this access for 

free, because they made their money on the backend from (vHCR vendors, vPs, and other apps vendors).

You can also subscribe to healthcare apps provided by virtual Healthcare Record (vHCR) vendors and apps provided by virtual Physicians (vP).  The vHCR vendor of your choice will host your vHCR, which uses several keys to unencrypt the record.  vPs of your choice provided you with medical devices [maybe the same form factor as a watch], which monitored your health status.

The vHCR Vendors

You could pick the vendor of your choice based on their value add and cost.  vHCR vendors use common protocols for the creation, storage, and modification of the vHCR.

The vP Vendors

The vP vendors would provide remote monitoring (via devices, systems, and triggers) and remote checkups via video conferencing.