Doctors prescribe the future.

A survey by Medical Observer of GPs vision of future trends revealed a wishlist of biochips and genomics utilised in a point of care computer game;

...With innovations in medical technology continuing at pace, professor of general practice at the University of Sydney Tim Usherwood said regardless of whether GPs were early adopters or not, a greater shift of technology into the GP surgery was inevitable.

“Genomics and proteomics are about to hit medicine in a big way. We will reach the stage where it becomes much easier to predict the future onset of disease long before it happens and take pre-emptive action,” he said.
 

...Chair of the AMA Council of General Practice Dr Brian Morton said he was confident GPs could adopt current innovations such as tablet and cloud computing to become more mobile.

“General practice is pretty good at taking up new technologies, and with the younger generation coming on board, there’s going to be more of it,” he said.