The medical home

What is the medical home? It is the vision of companies like Intel, Philips Electronics and the consulting firm Accenture to bring devices and IT into the homes of American elders to help them keep their health and quality of life intact while keeping costs down.

Here's what underpins the vision, according to the June 26th WSJ article "The Future of Health Care?" (sub req'd):

With health-care budgets stretched to the breaking point -- and with health-care workers in short supply -- improved use of technology is widely thought to be a solution to meeting the growing needs of an aging America.

Would these companies' vision truly do what it's intended to do when expressed in the real world? I don't know, and time will tell.