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 Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 tedtalks at www.ted.com
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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.
@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.
and you’d not wish yo prevent such emergencies from happening in the first place? that boggles my brain
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
“more has been learned about the underpinnings of disease in the last 2.5 years, than in the history of man.”
Yet he didn’t bother to give even a single example of ANY insight into ANY disease we have gained in the last 2.5 years.
@WhichDoctor1 There is also the issue of the technology being used to monitor people against their will. If we are only now seeing this then be sure it has been around for a while in the hands of intelligence agencies.
I am not against the application of new technologies. Even more so I like technology very much, especially if it improves care. But as WhichDcotor 1 pointed out, how do we protect the dotor from an information overload syndrome, and also prevent overtreatment and overdiagnosing? At the end of the day we are all human, not machines.
wevenhuis- These are all very valid and important questions to ask.(Why the thumbs down?) Apart from all the questions about how the doctor manages the data. There is also the question of weather all this monitoring could lead to unnecessary treatments that could cost more and even cores harm. This is the case already with some conventional scans and tests.
ricande- The thing is, if the apps hes talking about are only available on the iphone how else is he supposed to give examples?
Every ounce of my hypochondriac body is tingling with a desire for this technology…. I think… I hope that tingling is desire, I’m really not sure ….
This technology couldn’t come to soon
All very interesting but I offer the following use of the technology – SCREEN ON ONLY IN EMERGENCIES. Yep I do not want to now what my heart is doing but if I get an issue that needs to be dealt with then I should get an alarm and the screen should then, and only then, activate to tell me what is wrong. That way the tech becomes an invisible monitor that will only make itself known when it is needed without the urge to keep checking
@edv11nas yeah…
Well I looked and couldn’t find anything. And I think windows mobile 7 is just new os
anyway, who actually cares 
05:18 Wait… “CHF $ 37 Billion/Yr”??? … Why is he telling that in Swiss Francs? Maybe I didn’t see or hear something, but I’m to lazy to check again
iPhone was the first and is the furthest technology wise in the smartphone industry so it’s only natural that they test out these apps first on it. I don’t like the iPhone either but damn don’t get butthurt.
Not to mention that the lowercase i prefix is used by a lot of internet and technology related companies. It’s just the new symbol for technology.
Money should be spent elsewhere. I hate how companies like this will receive such an abundance of money while people within the cities where these are produced are homeless. Eat healthy, be active, and age may be the only reason for heart failure in later years. I feel this constant monitoring will further increase human anxiety as the users will constantly be checking it. Things like this make life too technology driven.
well I heard they were making some kinda windows 7 mobile or something… yes, an actual mobile.
@JaksProductions they do? O.O Guess that’s worth checking on google
this is retarded. people don’t need to see how bad their health is, they need to eat the right foods and not have to worry about their health.
come on TED. yea, this may be impressive tech, but its a step backwards in improving our health. this “vital information” only benefits corporations investing in (and proliferating) our poor health.
completely stupid. i hope we never get to the point where this tech becomes widely used.
type 2 diabetes, stop over eating… there is your cure man.
Is that TED thing in someway related with iphone? It’s pissing me off that they say IThis n IThat like there is only one effin phone on the planet. So you wanna reach people in developing countries with those apps but only if they’ll own fu**ing IPhone? There’s more great phones out there and ppl that could use these med-app’s with their handsets. I hate monopolistic attempts by apple. F**ck IRhytm, f**ck IShoe, f**ck ITunes. IFuck you.
Well this will make assassination much easier. You can confirm a kill just by hacking someone’s monitors with your nexus 1. Oooh or you could send a fake signal showing liver failure or something so that the doctors do the killing.
awesome
ups, he just mentioned the Iphone just in the end
well, I like this ideas anyway
well, actually I didn’t see any logo during the lecture.. I think you can show anything if nothing is specially related to a certain brand…isn’t it?