One such challenge was to develop a scenario which would improve the entire health of the nation by an order of magnitude. Though there are an interesting number of policy and regulatory solutions, there are few technological answers. One such answer was the “intelligent bathroom” or unceremoniously dubbed the “millennium toilet”. This scenario presumed the solution was to provide every person a complete physical examination every day, to detect adverse health changes in a proactive and timely fashion. The only place such an examination could occur would be the bathroom, where a person performs their daily personal hygiene. All of the components of the room would have sensors to detect physical health. Thus, using the toilet would sense for sugar, protein, WBC in the urine or look for stool guiac. The shower would contain ultrasound for imaging the body. Above the mirror would be a camera that would perform fundoscopic examination searching for changes in eygrounds detecting or following the progression of diabetes, arteriosclerosis, etc. The toothbrush would contain sensors to monitor blood pressure, pulse rate and other vital signs. In essence, throughout the room would be ubiquitous sensors to continuously monitor the daily health of the individual, comparing the information to the archived patient specific database (either on their own home personal computer, or perhaps a secure website). Decision support systems would detect changes that could be used to alert the person of significant potential problems, and offer suggestions or references. With a proper notification process, the local healthcare nurse could be notified of the changes to assess possible interventions. The premise is that changes would be detected so early in the stage of the disease that appropriate preventive medicine measures could be instituted long before the overt manifestation of disease would require an expensive acute intervention such as emergency hospitalization or surgery. The technologies to enable such a shift in treatment from acute emergent care to proactive preventive health exist today, both in the commercial sector and the research laboratories. What is required is subjecting such a bold scenario to stringent evaluation, both for the individual components and the entire integrated system, to determine which, if any, of the technologies could become part of an entirely new approach to the provision of healthcare through tele-preventive medicine. Information is the power to cure.