FutureMed Day 4: Security in Medicine and Ray Kurzweil

On day 4 of FutureMed, we visited companies in the Bay area and listened to Ray Kurzweil presenting about the future.

Also see Medgadget and the Futuremed Magazine for recaps. And here is day 1, day 2 and day 3.

We visited Genentech where they told us they work with 3,5 million compounds and moved the focus towards small molecules in 2005. I loved the fact that the building is on DNA way. During a presentation, we could watch the process of designing small molecules with software solutions in 3D.

Then we visited Palantir and heard about their data-driven solutions.

Marc Goodman talked about security in medicine and healthcare in this Internet-based world. He mentioned how hackers might get access to medical devices or even pacemakers; genetic data and other health records. He used the expression “wireless body area network”.

At IDEO, workshops were organized and we learnt the process of designing healthcare innovations and had a great lunch in Palo Alto.

When we got back to the campus, Ray Kurzweil, world-famous futurist gave a presentation. Christian Assad wrote a great compilation of this presentation in the FutureMed Magazine. Later on, Esther Dyson, David Shaywitz and Jeremy Stone gave suggestions about healthcare entrepreneurship as a panel.

Watch Ray Kurzweil’s recent video, the Transcendent Men: