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EMERGING EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES
IN MEDICINE
Christian Assad-Kottner, MDCardiology Department
Goals Understand the potential that Social
Media tools have and how they WILL affect the way we practice medicine
Familiarize oneself with emerging exponential technologies and their impact on how medicine will be practiced (Nanomedicine/Robotics, Tissue Engineering, 3D Printing)
Understand the potential of Home Monitoring, Telemedicine, and Mobile Devices
Last but not least…
Open your mind and explore innovative thinking to create a positive change in your surrounding.
The problem with close minded people is that
their mouths are always open
Let’s Get Started with a little History
1969
NASA in 1969
So what is your point?Say What!?!
Say What? iPhone 4 has has 256 MB of
memory and runs at around 1 GHz
The Apollo guidance computer had 2KB of memory and ran at about 1 MHz
So that means… The iPhone4 is 1000 times more
powerfull than all of NASAs computing system put together in 1969…
The newest Samsung Smartphone Galaxy SIII has 2gb of RAM! And runs at 1.5ghz
It also means that… Almost everyone in this room has at least
1000 times the processing power that NASA had in 1969
This corresponds to “Moore's Law” which states “The number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years”
The capabilities of many digital electronic
devices are strongly linked to Moore's law: Processing speedMemory capacitySensors Pixels in digital cameras
Moore’s Law
How does this impact Medicine?
Digital Medicine / Connected Health
FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE + LinkedIn
• Doximity• Sermo• iMedEx• Ozmosis• PeerCase• QuantiaMD• Medicmingle• MedXCentral
General Physicians
“Social media platforms are also changing the landscape of another influential force—marketing. The impact of marketing on health behaviors is well known. For example, tobacco use rates parallel investments in advertising and decrease in response to anti-tobacco campaigns.(4) Facebook, Twitter, and Google are embedded with algorithms that analyze user demographics for strategic advertising. These platforms provide personalized and relatively unregulated marketing venues for the tobacco industry and lack a strong anti-tobacco presence.(5) Social media provide demographic data for ads personalized for age, gender, and interests—consider the power of this technology in directed public health campaigns.
The next frontier is to use social media to study and improve health. Emerging research suggests these platforms provide insight into challenging issues like depression, substance abuse, and high-risk sexual behavior.(6,7) I envision a future in which we harness this epidemiological goldmine to advance our understanding and to develop high impact interventions that strategically empower the vulnerable”
http://nejm200.nejm.org/essay/from-framingham-to-facebook/
Monitoring Devices
Body Monitoring Wearable body monitoring is not about
being quantified
Wearable body monitoring is about having the right parts of the world know who you are and what you want and need in 10,000 little ways, in real time, all the time.
And there will be literally a million apps for that.
App Exampl
es
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WARNING! INFORMATION OVERLOAD AHEAD!
987654321
How about your own Personal Defibrillator?
Sit down… This was just the warm up!
Nanomedicine / Biotechnology One nanometer is one-millionth of a
millimeter Nanomedicine is a large industry, with
nanomedicine sales reaching 6.8 billion dollars in 2004
200 companies and 38 products worldwide, a minimum of 3.8 billion dollars in nanotechnology R&D is being invested every year
Nanomedicine / Biotechnology
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology
Nanomedicine ranges from the medical applications of nanomaterials, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology.
Nanomedicine / Biotechnology
Current problems for nanomedicine involve understanding the issues related to toxicity and environmental impact of nanoscale materials.
In April 2006, the journal Nature Materials estimated that 130 nanotech-based drugs and delivery systems were being developed worldwide.
Nanomedicine
Organ on a Chip
The Vascular Ship “Rotablator” 1998
3D Printing
3D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital model
3D printing is achieved using additive processes, where an object is created by laying down successive layers of material
3d Printing
Tissue Engineering
Tissue Engineering
Print your Medication?
Conclusions
Change is happening at an exponential pace
Familiarizing yourself with these technologies can help you:ImagineDreamCreateInnovate
Nothing great was e
ver achieved with
out enthusia
sm.
“Emerson”