For the past five years, a community of impassioned individuals from around the globe have gathered to drive forward the future of health and medicine at a conference called TEDMed. TEDMed is an off-shoot of the well-known TED brand, which was founded...
You know how we keep hearing that there just isn’t enough clinical evidence yet to justify reimbursement for mobile and wireless technologies such as home monitoring systems? That may be about to change, possibly in an unlikely venue: the venerable, oftentimes stuffy, Journal of the American Medical...
I had a brief but interesting conversation with Nilofer Merchant regarding the economics of TED yesterday. Nilofer requested that we take the discussion into a longer format, and will kindly be taking the time to order her thoughts in a new post which I am looking forward to reading. The point Nilofer...
I sat in on a webinar this week and as a healthcare blogger I was the lowest denominator attending but wanted to listen in and find out about what others, scientists, doctors and the Geron CEO had to say. I do quite a few posts on the Quack here and thought this might be of interest since I have...
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Bill Gales was the curator this year for the Long Beach Convention and when it was his turn to talk he addressed budgets and the need for better education. Bill Gates Serving as “Guest” Curator for the Annual TED Conference In March 2011 Also one of my favorites is returning Juan Enriquez who speaks...
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I know that parking structure in Long Beach but last time I was there no Google car. If I am not mistaken, the Google car is the forward workings of Stanford who built the autonomous car, Junior that competed in the last Darpa Urban Challenge and came in second place. The Intel car and I...
I thought this was a well thought out presentation and difficult to give no less too.I feel she does make some very good points as what and who we designate as experts and wealth is not always the dividing line here, like we sometimes think it may be. Decision making is getting harder as we all...
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Yes this means he’s the one inviting all the speakers! Also one of my favorites is returning Juan Enriquez who speaks about regenerative medicine. His talks are always at the top of my list. Educators and Healthcare are the main themes this year with focus on kids. This should...
One of the important areas she touches on here is how polio funding is running short and it could be and second disease wiped off the planet. Her vision of happiness is holding a happy baby in one’s arms. The bottom line message here is learning how we can better world healthcare with some...
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How can we afford to treat patients for chronic conditions he asks? At age 45 he points out there is a big spike and that there are very few things that will change the ways we can create “healthy aging”. He says all insurance does is change the face of “who pays”. He says rationing...
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There’s almost not a day that goes by where there’s not some new mobile application in the news. My question is, what is going to end up being a standard and in fact useful without more glut. I said a while back that mobile meaningful use was overlooked and here we are. I look at some of...
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This is fascinating and the video is well worth the watch. The computer can respond to facial expressions and more. The first image below shows a complicated proto type and the speaker explains of course why this would not work. The algorithm unmasks the cortex . Yes you heard...