Idea: automated medical checkups

Couldn't the process of medical check-ups be automated?

Think about what is done in your typical check-up:
- Your blood pressure is taken
- Your pulse is observed
- Your weight and height measured.
- The doctor looks in your ears, nose and throat.
- The doctor checks for swollen glands.
- Perhaps your temperature is taken.
- You tell him what is going on with you and he listens.
- If anything looks like it's a problem you schedule follow up tests or get referred to a specialist.

Couldn't most of this be automated? Blood pressure monitors are in many stores now.

What you would need is something like a glorified bathroom - perhaps connected with one of the new 'mini-clinics' that are sprouting up:
http://www.walmart.com/clinics?redirect_query=clinic

This bathroom/kiosk would have a blood pressure monitor, a scale, a camera or two (for ears, nose, throat exam maybe) and a few other automated devices. The user would pay a fee, (maybe $35 or so) and enter the room. A screen on the wall would have instructions on what to do. The process would go forward similar to a computer "wizard". At the end the data would be saved in some standard format accessible by the user on the web and available to the users doctor.

Some people (overly concerned with privacy perhaps issues perhaps) will probably not be interested in this.

Some sort of standard electronic medical records will need to be in place before this could really work.