Now who remembers the Terminator films? Skynet will rise August 4th, 1997.
A year later, Google was founded.
A decade later in 2007, Android OS was born.
Today, Android exists as a mobile device, laptops, wearables, tv, in-car integration, music. Google have been researching in drones. If you really wanted to, you could control your home security and appliances on Google-based system.
Now that got me thinking, now that Google have established a cloud-presence with a vast number of web tools and data architectures, surely there could be immense advantage if Google invested in the NHS system....
Imagine: gPACS, gPath, gPrescribing. Seamless integration of all data systems powered by a Google cloud backend. Data accessible on desktops and portable devices.
The problem currently, every Trust have invested in independent systems. GE Healthcare for radiology, WinPath in Pathology, ICE for order requests and various Electronic Discharge systems. Let us not forget Cerner Millenium which rose and fell very quickly.
I understand the need for each package, but for the front-end user, the digital age doctor is extremely inefficient.
Integrate these systems with a single front-end single log-on system that works between desktop and tablet, and now we might have a more efficient doctor.
I can only dream.
