Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine

http://www.ted.com Eric Topol says we’ll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine’s future — all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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4 Responses to “Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine”

  1. RosenzweigBenjamin2 on March 17th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    Check out the …
    Check out the singularity hub, (subscribe to it actually, best tech info on the web IMHO); I remember reading about recent successes in suppressing certain strains of HIV with stem cell therapy. Also, if you haven’t already, check out David Agus’s discussion on how he is applying systems thinking to treating and preventing cancer.

  2. RosenzweigBenjamin2 on March 17th, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    @roidroid Check out …
    @roidroid Check out the singularity hub, (subscribe to it actually, best tech info on the web IMHO); I remember reading about recent successes in suppressing certain strains of HIV with stem cell therapy. Also, if you haven’t already, check out David Agus’s discussion on how he is applying systems thinking to treating and preventing cancer.

  3. and you’d not wish …
    and you’d not wish yo prevent such emergencies from happening in the first place? that boggles my brain

  4. surely that is not …
    surely that is not what this tedtalk was about. all disEases are the product of the degration of the air we breath, food we eat and sleep interruptrd by the constant electrical static we now live. natures subtle energies can not compete. all that taxes us will cost us our health. maybe these devicess will let us see just how much we are affected by all we do or not do

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