Already a popular fitness tool, the Xbox Kinect is now being integrated into the healthcare industry and could modernise patient-doctor communications. Games consoles like the Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinect have revolutionised at-home fitness, filtering into the exercise industry with their hugely popular workout games. Although they have proved a hit with tech-savvy consumers, there are hopes such technology could find a day-to-day use in the healthcare industry.
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Microsoft Research is one of the teams facilitating the integration of gaming technology into the healthcare industry and the Xbox Kinect is one of the main tools in its arsenal.
The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Canada is one hospital already using the Kinect in its operating rooms to eliminate hygiene and infection problems. The contactless control of the Kinect is enabling doctors and surgeons to view patient notes, scans and x-ray images without the need to touch surfaces that could be infected with bacteria, like a computer mouse or keyboard. This has reduced the time it takes to carry out operations and procedures as doctors do not have to continuously wash and disinfect their hands.
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Using this in an operating room is a great idea but group therapy? Connection — real connection, not simulated connection — is important in psychotherapy. Mundie is out of his depth of understanding here.
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