This is an area, that currently available IT technologies could be of great help - if they were seriously deployed: First, automated medical questionnaires bef

This is an area, that currently available IT technologies could be of great help - if they were seriously deployed: First, automated medical questionnaires before the visit can gather much more detailed information that a doctor in such a short visit, and display it to the doc in an efficient manner, while letting the doctor verify or ask more. There's a company doing this via tablets at clinics, forgot the name. Second, medical expert systems(like Isabel healthcare) that could manage the extreme complexity of Healthcare, request missing data, offer an accurate list of possible diagnoses with probabilities without forgetting rare diseases. Basically Dr. House in a box. But, I fully expect doctors to resist those systems, like in the past, because it takes away from their skill and makes their work boring. But maybe we as consumers should demand this, both through the political process and through our consumer power?