Alongside spiraling healthcare costs...

Alongside spiraling healthcare costs isn't wrong to ignore the opportunity to change care delivery through use of technology?

Kevin Doughty: Maybe you're looking at the problem with the wrong perspective. Instead of thinking about forcing technology adoption onto seniors think about introducing it in ways where the patient actively wants to use it.

In designing the future mHealth technologies it helps me to appreciate the influences that motivate seniors to willingly adopt other complex technologies such as Golf Clubs or Bowling Balls.

The use of Nintendo Wii games consoles in retirement homes provides a very good early example of the opportunity that can be found by invisibly combining advanced computing/sensory/feedback/gaming technologies.

The opportunity in mHealth is realised when one goes away from thinking of the interface as the cellphone...