Say what you will but MS Surface is cool and HIT is getting cooler with the surface interface influence.
Not only does it give people a more human interaction method – reminiscent of our childhood (grab, push, throw) but it gives us a new way to interact together with computers and each other.
Have a look at this shot of the machine with the Patient Navigator activated.
Anand Gaddam (Director, Healthcare Practice, iLink Systems, Redmond, WA) and Nancy Harris (St. Joseph Health System, Administrator, Cancer Services, The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment, Orange, CA) did a great job of presenting the solution demonstration (currently in PoC level deployment at SJH).
But the serious stuff behind all this is the way in which Oncology interactions have been beneficially modified to interact though this new medium.
Note this answer to this interesting IT/Pro+Dev question: