The BioDigital Human brings anatomy to life like we've never seen it before. Watch as co-founder and developer John Qualter shows me how to manipulate the 3D image with the wave of his hand.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Hive Hopes for the Future: The BioDigital Human
Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive.
Hive Hopes For The Future: Novocor Medical Systems
Hive Hopes For The Future is a segment focused on the technologies featured at the TEDMED Hive.
Keeping patients cold is saving lives.
Current data suggests that a heart attack patient induced into a hypothermic state may have reduced morbidity and mortality.
Tissues slow down their metabolism and blood flow in the cold. This slowing decreases
the likelihood that heart tissue will suffer subacutely from further lack of
oxygen and reperfusion damage, following a heart attack. Tony Voiers of Novocor
Medical Systems has taken this information to heart, and created mobile hypothermic induction units (HypoCores) to be used by emergency medical technicians
on cardiac patients.
on cardiac patients.
The Hive
The Hive is the epicenter of innovation at TEDMED. It is where delegates mingle, eat meals and try out the latest technological innovations.
(I've died and gone to Google...I imagine this is what it is like working at Google.)
TEDMED Moves Us To Action
The company fitbit, founded in San Francisco by engineers James Park and Eric Friedman, is counting on us all, literally. The company has provided all 1,800 conference delegates with a wireless activity trackers. The goal: walk around the world in 3.5 days. To achieve this each delegate must take approximately 9,000 steps a day. Get movin!
Monday, April 15, 2013
A Sample of Companies Created and Run by TEDMED Front-Line Scholars. Check them out!
TickiT for Health: Smart communication technology for better youth healthcare. www.tickitforhealth.com
Sense Health: A platform to help healthcare providers efficiently support their patients in between appointments. www.sensehealth.com
Global Health Report Card: How does your university impact global health? globalhealthgrades.org/
00-O Benefit: Bringing
solar-powered phone and internet systems to developing countries. www.00-O.com
Rimidi Diabetes: A software start-up
aiming to improve diabetes management through data analytics decision support
and patient engagement in their medical management. www.rimidi.com
NCDFREE: A social movement to
make non-communicable diseases globally understood and start a wave of
social and political change. www.indiegogo.com/projects/ncdfree
Mybestrx: A new way to find the best prices for the medications you need. www.mybestrx.com
What do Richard Simmons, a Senior White House Advisor, and the President of the Rhode Island School of Design have in common?
TEDMED
They each have just 18 minutes to inspire, challenge and change the future of medicine.
Just a few of the Speakers at TEDMED 2013 (click to enlarge):
(speakers photo courtesy of http://www.tedmed.com/speakers)
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