(MIT) Technology Review: A pilot version of Massachusetts General Hospital's new healthcare screening kiosk will be tested in stores and other public spaces in Britain as part of a newly established vascular screening program to prevent cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart attack. The kiosk can take a patient's medical history, pulse, weight, blood pressure and other vital signs, and even perform simple bood tests for glucose and cholesterol. Doctors hope the kiosk will encourage blood tests so to increase the chances of early diagnosis of chronic diseases. Dr. Ronald Dixon envisions his kiosks placed in supermarkets and big-box stores: customers could step up, key in their password-protected information, answer questions related to their personal health history, and then get their checkup. The United Kingdom is an ideal testing ground because it has a nationalized health-care system; everyone has an assigned primary care physician and electronic health records, so the infrastructure for sharing and responding to the results is already in place.
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