The National Air and Space Museum Delegate Dinner

This year's TEDMED nightlife includes a night at The National Air and Space Museum. This Delegate dinner celebration features all-access to the museum, phenomenal food and a conveyor belt of desserts. 

Hive Hopes For The Future: Visualdx, The ARTS And CRAFTS Of Diagnosis

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 
(Art and Craft...Sorry guys I can't resist a good tagline!!!)

 Art Papier and Noah Craft are dermatologist who have come to TEDMED with an innovation in diagnostic programming and they want you to see it. On average, twenty-five percent of initial diagnoses are wrong. Visualdx is a diagnostic decision support tool. It allows you to create searches based on anything from symptoms to patient history, and then refine your search based on co-morbidities and further demographics, to arrive at possible diagnoses. For example, search the patient’s symptom of a rash>on a child>confined to trunk>patient also has sore throat>Voila! An array of possible diagnoses is propagated; many accompanied by a library of images, enabling doctors to confirm the diagnosis, demonstrate to patients and educate students.

(Get it here: http://www.visualdx.com/)

Hive Hopes For The Future: Emotiv Is Reading Your Mind

Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive. 

An EEG is a device that measures brain activity. Emotiv has harnessed the power of brainwaves via EEG headset, to allow you to control the digital world with your mind. Delegates wear headsets, which measure brain activity, thereby allowing them to manipulate shapes and play video games using only their brain waves. This technology can be applied to anything from electronic wheelchairs to everyday web surfing. 

http://www.emotiv.com/

Manzari Brothers: A Signal In The Noise

Teen dance sensations, John and Leo tap into the soul of health. 
(I apologize for the video quality. The Manzari brothers can also be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6uUBeYCWQ)

ZdoggMD

ZdoggMD, a doctor mashing medicine, music and megalomania in an effort to educate and entertain.

(http://zdoggmd.com/)

I Can't Explain It, But It's Happening

 

Richard Simmons dance-along. And yes, I believe that is the director of NIH shakin it in the second row.

Backstage With Special Corespondent, Michael Codini

Harvard grad and fellow GWU medical student, Michael Codini, backstage with none other than exercise enthusiast Richard Simmons. Mr. Simmons sends these words of wisdom to you now "Those with egos are not my amigos."

Look for his TED talk later today!

Jill Sobule's Sing Along

Jill Gets Us All Singing A Different Tune.

(For a full version of "They say we want our America back." visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4TLRVeRgIo)

Jill Sobule sings to about real life and she does so quite literally. Leaving metaphors behind, she muses on such topics as the death penalty, anorexia and reproductive rights. Today she sung a provocative little ditty about immigration rights in the United States; followed by a much lighter number, about searching for all the people she had made-out with on facebook. 

Day Two, Talk One: Your Social Pulse

Looking at the social pulse of an individual can determine their health. When her father died, his labs and imaging studies were all completely normal, but there were changes. He stopped sent fewer emails, used his smartphone less, and he didn't surf the web anymore. All these activities leave a digital footprint known as your social pulse. We can use this information in health care, giving people back their small data.

(Deborah Estrin, Open End Health and Cornell Tech)