Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine

http://www.ted.com Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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[EmmaDelamare]

If you want to stay out of a hospital bed stop eating garbage and get some exercise. Prevention is better than cure every time.

[bluveeta]

Every ounce of my hypochondriac body is tingling with a desire for this technology.... I think... I hope that tingling is desire, I'm really not sure ....

This technology couldn't come to soon

[3877michael]

Your boss and insurance co will live this. Monitor you at work and fire you when you are having trouble. One bad spike and the ins co will drop you like a hot potato! That super hot chick you are close to hooking up with will read you and see all your health issues. By by love !

[IBDUwebsite]

very interesting!

[PillageFilms]

Or you could just eat well, exercise regularly, and get enough sleep.

[eyhexs]

then all i need to do is hack their device and I will be able to monitor their vital functions, and those of their families

MWAHAHAHAHAHA! >:D

or better yet, upload a live feed online an have THE ENTIRE WORLD monitoring your vital signs, every living heartbeat >:D

[RosenzweigBenjamin2]

Check out the singularity hub, (subscribe to it actually, best tech info on the web IMHO); I remember reading about recent successes in suppressing certain strains of HIV with stem cell therapy. Also, if you haven't already, check out David Agus's discussion on how he is applying systems thinking to treating and preventing cancer.

[HamOnCan]

and you'd not wish yo prevent such emergencies from happening in the first place? that boggles my brain

[HamOnCan]

surely that is not what this tedtalk was about. all disEases are the product of the degration of the air we breath, food we eat and sleep interruptrd by the constant electrical static we now live. natures subtle energies can not compete. all that taxes us will cost us our health. maybe these devicess will let us see just how much we are affected by all we do or not do

[roidroid]

"more has been learned about the underpinnings of disease in the last 2.5 years, than in the history of man."

Yet he didn't bother to give even a single example of ANY insight into ANY disease we have gained in the last 2.5 years.

[jacqflash]

There is also the issue of the technology being used to monitor people against their will. If we are only now seeing this then be sure it has been around for a while in the hands of intelligence agencies.