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

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WARNING! INFORMATION OVERLOAD AHEAD!

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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”