This is basic idea about how to better use technology to acheive value. The hospital room of the future is now. By harnessing current IT and medical device expertise we can collect more information in an automated fashion so that nurses or physician assistants do not need to manually enter weights or heights into EPIC. All devices used to obtain patient data should be linked via bluetooth or wirelss to automatically dump data into EPIC. In addition, real-time monitoring of patients in novel ways such as using pressure sensors to prevent skin breakdown or novel diaper technology to perform automated urinalysis within the diaper itself could add value to medical care. This new data could then be analyzed through better systems for data processing such that patient data is continually monitored to trigger physician/nursing alerts such as "time to reposition your patient" or "your patient's urine is showing evidence for acute kidney failure such that we could modify care to limit costly side effects and morbidity.