Daniel Kraft: TEDMED 2011

In this inspirational presentation from TEDMED 2011, Daniel Kraft, a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, offers up some ideas regarding how the medical industry can move from the present to the future.

If you saw the last TED Talk we posted from Daniel Kraft, he explains the plethora of emerging medical technologies that have the power to change medicine as we know it.

Today, 25 percent of all US physicians own a tablet device, while average consumers can use mobile devices as diagnostic tools and share healthcare information via social networking. Mobile devices also provide consumers with the concept of “quantified self,” helping them monitor and improve their health.

Kraft explains that in order to incorporate all this new technology into healthcare systems, we need to redefine how the system is structured. “If we want to get from San Diego to New York, on your car you may not want to strap on new wings and a rocket motor—you may actually want to build a jet fighter to get there in a couple hours.”