Ajay Verma, MD, PhD, Vice President, Translational Neurology, Biogen Inc., assesses the neurodegeneration problem that will accompany the significant increase in the elderly population. He discusses the imminent intersection…
Neil Jacobstein, Co-Chair of A.I. and Robotics, Singularity University, discusses the need for medical artificial intelligence to reduce medical errors. As a new generation of doctors begins practice, an…
Neil Jacobstein, Co-Chair of A.I. and Robotics, Singularity University, discusses the need for medical artificial intelligence to consult the vast amount of information in medicine. As a new generation…
John Mattison, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Kaiser Permanente, explains why he left the fee-for-service world and joined the Kaiser Permanente as an integrated delivery system. Dr.…
The switch to Electronic Health Records (EHR) is one that seems painful to the healthcare provider, as it suggests increased documentation time and increased work load. Dan Riskin,…
Atul J. Butte, Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, explains why it’s an amazing time right now for biomedical research. As…
Larry Smarr, Founding Director, CALIT2, details the growing epidemic of children, especially those with gastrointestinal disorders, who were not exposed to the necessary microbiomes during the formative years…
John Abele, Founder, Boston Scientific Corporation, explains the challenges behind the exponential growth in the advancement of technology. He gives 6 guidelines to address the ethical dilemmas of modern…
Larry Smarr, Founding Director, CALIT2, examines the 90% of cells in the body that aren’t human, most of which reside in the large intestine. A recent study used…
How do small companies create groundbreaking changes through the internet? Brad Templeton of Foresight Nanotech Institute and former chairman of Electronic Frontier Foundation explains how “stupid networks” allow…