Kinect the Docs: How Microsoft's video game technology is changing healthcare

September 09, 2013

Kinect the Docs: How Microsoft's video game technology is changing healthcare

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The Microsoft Kinect began as an alternate controller for the company's Xbox 360 game console, but developers have recognized that the motion sensing camera has huge potential for many industries -- including, increasingly, healthcare. This report will get you up to speed on how entrepreneurs and researchers are using the Kinect platform for physical therapy, surgery, consumer wellness, autism spectrum disorder screening, aging in place, and much, much more.

MobiHealthNews talked to sources from across the industry to gather the intelligence compiled in this report -- just in time for next year's launch of the new Kinect, often called the Kinect 2.

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Table of Contents:

I. Introduction: The History of the Microsoft Kinect in Healthcare
II. The Kinect, Fitness, and Exergaming
III. The Kinect in Physical Therapy
IV. Other Kinect Use Cases
V. Regulation and Reimbursement
VI. Looking Ahead: The New Kinect and Kinect Competitors