This electronic clipboard looks interesting:

“An electronic clipboard that has the potential to save lives has been unveiled. It is hoped the device – known as a mobile clinical assistant (MCA) – will cut the time doctors and nurses spend on paper work.

“It could also improve patient safety and speed up treatment times. The portable device lets clinicians access patient records at the bedside, write notes and order essential tests in real-time. One senior doctor described it as one of the “most exciting developments in my 25 years in medicine”.” (Maybe a good ‘interface’ for a shift handover system?)

Additional report in E-Health Insider.

Caught this very interesting piece in Medicexchange.com:

“Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain’s secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers.

“The news that brain scanners can now read a person’s intentions before they are expressed or acted upon has given a new boost to the fledgling field of neuroethics that hopes to help researchers separate good uses of their work from bad.

“The same discoveries that could help the paralysed use brain signals to steer a wheelchair or write on a computer might also be used to detect possible criminal intent, religious beliefs or other hidden thoughts, these neuroethicists say…”