At the 2011 TEDMED conference in San Diego, the stem cell researcher gave a great overview on the shows us the emerging trends which are going to play a big role in how medicine develops in the coming decades. Mobile platforms, 24 hour at home monitoring, artificial intelligence, social networking, massive data collection, crowd-sourcing are all technologies to be change the way we see medicine. With $2.4 trillion spent on medicine in the United States alone, there’s a huge incentive to make the industry faster, smarter, and more efficient. We also recommend watching: "Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips: The Future of Predictive Medicine" and "Eric Topol: The Wireless Future of Medicine".
Daniel Kraft, M.D. is an NIH funded faculty member affiliated with Stanford. He was on clinical faculty with the UCSF pediatric bone marrow transplantation service and serves as the medicine track chair forSingularity University where he is also executive director for the FutureMed executive program.
Daniel Kraft: Peek Into The Future of Medicine