Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave July 2, 2011
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A fantastic TED talk from my friend, E-Patient Dave:
Like this:
Daniel Kraft: Medicine’s future? There’s an app for that June 14, 2011
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A recent TED talk just hit Youtube. I saw Daniel Kraft presenting in person at the HQ of the United Nations this February when I attended the Kairos Society meeting and he was fantastic:
From Patients on Facebook to WiFi Enabled Asthma Inhalers April 19, 2011
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- Facebook friend request from a patient? (The Lancet)
In the USA, birthplace of most of these technological advances, various associations of health-care professionals are starting to issue codes of conduct when dealing with new digital media. Other countries, such as the UK, Canada, and Australia, are also debating what rules should be set. But some doctors believe such codes will have to evolve and adapt as younger generations, used to living an online life from an early age, start to dominate health care and to teach subsequent waves of professionals.
- TEDxPugetSound – Stephen Friend, MD, PhD – True Crowd Sourcing of Medicine: Activating All of Us
But I find the element of human support to be important. For example, recently the FDA issued a black box warning for the concomitant use of Remicade and 6-MP. My representative visited to be sure that I was aware of the changes in the product insert. Sure the information was in my mailbox – along with 6 inches of pulp spam. It’s basic attenionomics: I’m more likely to hear a person than a letter.
If your asthma is acting up, you’re probably not the only one. But unless you’re standing next to someone who is also huffing his or her inhaler, you wouldn’t know it. That’s a problem for epidemiologists who do their best work when they’re buried in data, and it’s exactly the problem a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researcher aims to solve with a GPS- and WiFi-enabled inhaler.
For the past nine years, this column has presented medical mysteries that doctors eventually solve. Recently, we tried something different: posting a tough-to-diagnose case on well.blogs.nytimes.com and challenging readers to try to figure out what was wrong with the patient. More than 1,300 people responded with a lively combination of questions and answers. Now, you can try to crack the case and follow the crowd-sourced medical conversation.
- NeoTake: A great e-book search engine for medical books as well
TEDxMaastricht: Medicine of the future April 11, 2011
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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the great TEDxMaastricht event organized by my good friend, Lucien Engelen. But here are some presentations that demonstrate how fantastic this event was:
Stephen Oesterle at TEDMED 2010 April 5, 2011
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Stephen Oesterle gave a great presentation about implantable medical devices and more marvellous developments at TEDMED 2010.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any smaller, Medtronic’s Stephen Oesterle show’s us something new in a ‘big’ way!
The Future of Education: Online and Quantified March 16, 2011
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Khan Academy seems to be very promising regarding the future of education. A recent TED video describes it all.
Khan spoke at the most recent TED conference about his project to create a series of free online videos and detailed self-assessments to educate anyone in the world. The audience gave him a long standing ovation, and I got chills watching it at home. Here’s the video, and my own Khan Academy experience below it.
Thomas Goetz: It’s time to redesign medical data February 1, 2011
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Thomas Goetz, author of The Decision Tree, had a talk at TEDMED about redesigning medical data. He also emphasized that in the majority of cases, better health is a matter of the problem of information, instead of the problem of science.
Computerized tiles revolutionize education January 6, 2011
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I know this TED talk is from 2009 but I still admire the work done by David Merrill, an MIT graduate student.
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
Health and Sound: TED Talk September 28, 2010
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Julian Treasure had an interesting talk about the relationship between the sounds around us and our health.
Julian Treasure says our increasingly noisy world is gnawing away at our mental health — even costing lives. He lays out an 8-step plan to soften this sonic assault (starting with those cheap earbuds) and restore our relationship with sound.
The Quantified Self: TED Talk September 27, 2010
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I’ve been a fan of the Quantified Self project for a long time and now a TED Talk describing their mission just became available.
