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How technology can empower patients, with 4 home tests on your iPhone. Eric Dishman is used to thinking about how technology can transform the world of health care. As an Intel Fellow and general manager of the company’s Health Strategy & Solutions Group, his job is all about finding innovative new approaches to healthcare. Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe And he’s no stranger to talking about them. At TEDMED 2009, in the talk featured to the left, Dishman asked us to “Take health care off the mainframe,” boldly comparing the current American health care system to mainframe computers circa 1959.
But just two weeks ago, at TED@Intel, Dishman tells the much more personal story of his battle with kidney disease. To say that his battle is with disease isn’t the full story. Instead, as he describes in this second talk, his fight is not only with faulty kidneys, Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sportbut also with a flawed healthcare system. Two decades ago, when he was a college student, Dishman had several fainting spells. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life.
Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too. Collaborative Consumption | Sharing reinvented through technology. Watch Rachel's TED Talk.Collaborative Consumption | Sharing reinvented through technology. Watch Rachel's TED Talk. 20110202RachelBotsman. Cohealo - Bringing collaborative consumption to healthcare. We’re changing the way healthcare technology is purchased, consumed, and delivered to patients through our collaborative platform. Our overarching mission is to enable life saving technology to be at the right place, at the right time, for the right cost. Join our team in building more incredible partnerships with some of the best hospital groups, physicians, and clinical staff in the world.
On our platform doctors get access to any device in their health system's network through our proprietary application and logistics service. Push a button on their smartphone, a robot or a laser shows up at their next surgery. We have combined this on-demand capability with a real-time medical device and supply marketplace. Secrets of the Sharing Economy.