MEDICINE EXPONENTIAL 2014





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The Conference Esponential Medicine was held in December 2014 in San Diego, California.

This meeting was born as a project of the Singularity University, which was co-founded by Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist and current director of engineering at Google. Many of you will remember his books ("Fantastic Voyage", "Transcendence" and "Creating a mind"), outlining his forecast that our biology will be fully integrated in the web in a few decades. This will transform medicine as we know it, as well as numerous other fields.
The other founder of the Singularity University is Peter Diamandis, who has received numerous awards, thanks to its commitment to motivate private entrepreneurs to make social improvements. Dr. Daniel Kraft was a guest of the Conference Esponential Medicine in 2014.

During the conference there was a great interest for some biological sensors that provide feedback in real time via a smartphone: devices called "wearable" as the band wrist evaluating the fitness, contact lenses that measure blood sugar , and implantable devices suitable for measuring the physiological functions.
There are over 250 sensors placed inside of an aircraft and other automated devices in other areas, but almost no plans yet devices for the human body. The effects on our lives of more automation will be multiple and positive, but will also imply some limits. For example, airline pilots today are mostly there to watch the work computer auto pilot. Rarely take control and this degrades their skills in an emergency. The same could happen for doctors in the future.
There is a great deal of discussion about robotics and its future impact on surgery, home care, nursing. The human doctor will compete with a robot connected to the medical literature.

Vinod Khosla has predicted that "science will do more for medicine within the next 10 or 20 years of all biological sciences combined." Think also that in that time frame we will see five times fewer errors, five times less than the cost of care , five times less work for the doctor, five times faster interactions clinics, and five times the number of opportunities for physicians to participate in research. from this perspective, the trend is a reduction of dependence on the doctor for the most part of health needs. While patients are CEOs of their own health. "

Source: Worldhealth


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