FutureMed Day 1: NASA, team building and Peter Diamandis

FutureMed is an amazing course about the future of medicine and current global trends. The first day was about registration, a tour on the NASA campus (with a look into how Vasper works) and team building. This if the first course I have ever attended in which the participants bring at least such a value to the event as the program itself. Great minds with huge ideas met there.

Fantastic compilations are published about day 1 at Medgadget and Futuremed magazine as well!

Here area few snippets of what happened and some main concepts I heard about.

• We live in the era of reimbursement based medicine instead of evidence based medicine.
• Scanadu sends your smartphone to medical school.
• We are the first generation that will see people leaving the planet forever (to Mars).
• We are the first generation that expects to have Wi-Fi everywhere.
• The world is not as bad as the media describes it, but negative news have more power due to evolutionary reasons (Diamandis).
• Internet penetrance will get to 66% in about 10 years which means 3 billion new minds will connect to the Internet soon bringing new ideas and new customer needs.
• John Abele said that the Arab spring is coming to healthcare as well.

In front of the classroom of Singularity University.

It always feels strange talking with a robot (although it was controlled by a human). Such telemedical robots are expected to appear in clinics soon.

Daniel Kraft, MD giving the introduction to the course.

The result of our teamwork at the marshmallow contest. Our tower was 30 inch high, not so bad.

Here is why it is a good solution for team building:

Peter Diamandis, founder of Singularity University, talking about his new book The Abundance.

Participants got a Fitbit with a sleep tracker.

I’ll post soon about day 2 featuring 3D printing, medical robots and data driven healthcare.