Why are the study and practice of medicine still so over-compartmentalized and top-down? The Singularity University FutureMed guru talks about tech-driven trends that can redefine the field.

The Human Genome and Individualized Medicine - David Valle, M.D.
Genomics in Medicine Lecture Series
December 2, 2011

The OP:Sense system is a research platform for new concepts and methods in robotic surgery. It consists of three main components: light-weight robots with surgical instruments as actuators, haptic interfaces for controlling the robots and an extensive supervision system to acquire the scene in real-time (not shown here).

This video shows the current status of the system and some of the features already implemented.

OP:SENSE is supported by the European Union through the FP7 projects SAFROS and ACTIVE.

Dr. Jay Bradner Research Scientist and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, shares his breakthrough approach for subverting the aggressive behavior of cancer by reprogramming a cell's fundamental identity . . . and he's giving the secrets away in order to spur open-source drug discovery.

When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found a medical treatment that even his own doctors didn't know. It saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health data, and make health care better one e-Patient at a time.

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.

For the first time in history, more people are searching the Internet for health information than asking doctors. Digital health consumers, known as e-patients, are now empowered, equipped, engaged, educated and connected to others electronically. E-Patient Connections 2009 is the one conference you need to attend to make sense of the radical changes taking place in health marketing. Spend two days in October--get breakthrough results for a year.

There's some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft ( @daniel_kraft ) knows a "little" about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them.

Singularity University is pleased to present the first program of its kind, the FutureMed Executive Program, an immersive and hands-on experience, to be held May 10th-15th at the NASA Ames Research Campus. FutureMed educates and prepares Physicians, Senior Health Care Executives, Innovators, and Investors to understand and recognize the opportunities and disruptive, game changing influences of exponentially growing technologies within medicine, health care and the biomedical industry in the decade ahead.

http://futuremed2011.com