"In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps." Singularity University 's executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we'll look at how A.I, big data, 3D printing, social health networks and other new technologies will help you get better medical care. Kraft believes that by analyzing where the field is going, we have the ability to reinvent medicine and build important new business models.
For background, Daniel Kraft studied medicine at Stanford and did his residency at Harvard. He's the founder of StemCore systems and inventor of the MarrowMiner,a minimally invasive bone marrow stem cell harvesting device. The following is rough transcript of the6 big ideas Kraft outlined for me at the Practice Fusion conference
Artificial Intelligence
Siri and IBM 's Watson are starting to be applied to medical questions. They'll assist with diagnostics and decision support for both patients and clinicians. Through the cloud, any device will be able to access powerful medical AI.
For example, an X-ray gun in remote africa could send shots to the cloud where an artificial intelligence augmented physician could analyze them. Pap smears and some mammograms are already read with some AI or elements of pattern recognition.
This has the potential to disintermediate some fields of medicine like dermatology which isa pattern based field —I look at the rash andI know what it is. Soon every primary care doctor is going to have an app on their phone that can send photos to the cloud. They'll be analyzed by AI and determine "oh that mole looks likea dangerous melanoma" or "it's normal". So the referral pattern to the dermatologist will slow down.
On the plus side, there are consumer apps like Skin Scan where for $5 you can takea picture of lesion and send it to the cloud, and it will at least give you an idea if it's dangerous or not. If it is, it can help you finda nearby doctor, which could help dermatologists get more business. Many fields are going to change because of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and cheaper tests.
Big Data
We're gaining the ability to get more and more data at lower and lower price points. The primary example is the human genome and genomic sequencing. It costa billion dollars or more 10 years ago to geta complete human sequence. However, the cost and speed of getting that data has dropped faster than Moore's law to the point where it's less than $5,000 when ordered online. From 23andMe ...
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For background, Daniel Kraft studied medicine at Stanford and did his residency at Harvard. He's the founder of StemCore systems and inventor of the MarrowMiner,a minimally invasive bone marrow stem cell harvesting device. The following is rough transcript of the6 big ideas Kraft outlined for me at the Practice Fusion conference
Artificial Intelligence
Siri and IBM 's Watson are starting to be applied to medical questions. They'll assist with diagnostics and decision support for both patients and clinicians. Through the cloud, any device will be able to access powerful medical AI.
For example, an X-ray gun in remote africa could send shots to the cloud where an artificial intelligence augmented physician could analyze them. Pap smears and some mammograms are already read with some AI or elements of pattern recognition.
This has the potential to disintermediate some fields of medicine like dermatology which isa pattern based field —I look at the rash andI know what it is. Soon every primary care doctor is going to have an app on their phone that can send photos to the cloud. They'll be analyzed by AI and determine "oh that mole looks likea dangerous melanoma" or "it's normal". So the referral pattern to the dermatologist will slow down.
On the plus side, there are consumer apps like Skin Scan where for $5 you can takea picture of lesion and send it to the cloud, and it will at least give you an idea if it's dangerous or not. If it is, it can help you finda nearby doctor, which could help dermatologists get more business. Many fields are going to change because of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and cheaper tests.
Big Data
We're gaining the ability to get more and more data at lower and lower price points. The primary example is the human genome and genomic sequencing. It costa billion dollars or more 10 years ago to geta complete human sequence. However, the cost and speed of getting that data has dropped faster than Moore's law to the point where it's less than $5,000 when ordered online. From 23andMe ...
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/01/healthtech-2012/
Shared via News360 for Windows Phone 7. Learn more at http://news360app.com.
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