Healthcare is a dynamic and constantly changing practice. The various ways medical professionals approach and treat diseases are evolving as quickly as ever, especially due to advances in biomedical technology. But it’s not just technological innovation that is revolutionizing the medical field – it’s the ideas from which these innovations are born. The future of medicine has been dictated by the men and women who dare to think outside the box. In this article, we will review the most inspirational, moving and innovative TED talks about medicine and healthcare.
Eric Dishman: Health Care Should Be A Team Sport
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Eric Dishman is an outspoken healthcare researcher for Intel. He is studying how new technology can solve big problems within the healthcare system.
His fascination with medicine and healthcare derives from his own near death experience. When he was in college, doctors told him he had only a few years to live. Now, Dishman combines his experience and expertise as a medical tech specialist to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.
Rebecca Onie: Can We Rewrite The DNA Of The Healthcare System?
Rebecca Onie co-founded Health Leads. She is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, U.S. Ashoka Fellow, and member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation External Advisory Council. In this TED Talk she argues about her organization’s efforts to link social services to healthcare and ensuring that patients have the basic resources that enable them to heal.
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Catherine Mohr: Surgery’s Past, Present and Robotic Future
Catherine Mohr is one of those people who changed their career in mid-life. She began her career as an engineer in developing alternative-energy vehicles and high-altitude aircraft. Her mid-career break: medical school, where she invented a brilliantly simple device, the LapCap, that makes laproscopic surgeries safer. Mohr now oversees the development of next-generation surgical robots and robotic procedures as the director of medical research at Intuitive Surgical Inc. where she’s the clinical design leader for the DaVinci Surgical Robotic system. She also works at Stanford’s School of Medicine where she studies simulation-based teaching methods to teach clinical skills to budding doctors.
In this innovative TED Talk, Mohr guides us through the history of surgery and talks about some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands.
Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing The Medical Data Explosion
Professor Anders Ynnerman received a Ph.D. in physics from Gothenburg University and studies the fundamental aspects of computer graphics and visualization.
Nowadays, medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient, but how do doctors pass this information and determine what’s useful? In this talk, Professor Ynnerman delivers advanced information on the latest technological breakthroughs in the field of medical imaging. The challenges of data collection and interpretation are also explored as new ways to gain an even deeper knowledge of patient injuries and diagnostics.
Aditi Shankardass: A Second Opinion on Developmental Disorders
Aditi Shankardass is a neuroscientist trained across three disciplines of the field: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and neuropsychology. She is pioneering the use of EEG technology to give children with developmental disorders their most accurate diagnosis.
In this talk Shankardass challenges traditional approaches to diagnosing developmental disorders in children (typically by observing behavior) and suggests looking directly at the brain itself. She explains how one EEG technique has revealed mistaken diagnoses and transformed children’s lives. Together with a team of Harvard researchers, she developed and spearheaded an effort that focused on using EEG medical imaging technology to see what was going on inside the brains of children previously diagnosed with some type of mental disorder.
Author: Bianca Banova, writing for AIMS Education
