Academic half-day presentation for the Lab Medicine Pathology residents by Dr. Kim Solez "Technology and Future of Medicine Course LABMP 590 - Update with YouTube Analytics/Audience Data" on June 11, 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. See http://www.singularitycourse.com and http://www.youtube.com/user/kimsolez
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For two years I have directed a unique
course on Technology and Future of
Medicine www.singularitycourse.com ,
presented information to the residents
about it in fall and winter 2012:
http
://www.slideshare.net/ksolez/kim-solez-introduction-to-
2012
An update with analytics/audience
retention data on course channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kimsolez
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Top ten most popular videos from Technology and Future of
Medicine course LABMP 590 in past 30 days. Vanessa Rogers
student presentation is #1. Nicholas Lee is #7. Dorian Fenton
is #9. Never anticipated such popularity of student videos!
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Anonymous feedback via SurveyMonkey. Authored feedback
as one assignment. Viewership numbers of broadcast quality
videos provides another sort of feedback, “likes” on YouTube
and Facebook. Michael Woodside nanotechnology video close
to viral, 1386 views
in 4 months, 12/day.
Videos at
www.youtube.com/
user/kimsolez
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Hot-linked table of contents on YouTube, can jump
right to segments of interest:
00:10:15 Neelam Sandhu presentation begins, health
informatics and privacy mixed with pathology and clinical
medicine, 00:11:05 health law and biomedical ethics,
00:11:25 important to be informed about health privacy
information, NetCare access limits, 00:13:05 Health
information science, 00:13:40 accuracy important,
00:14:24 patients are mobile, 00:14:55 Alberta leading the
way, fact that 3.5 million people are linked together is
without precedent, 00:16:05 HIS mantra, 00:16:54 Right to
privacy, 00:17:24 Student loan information breach,
00:18:40 Right to privacy. The right to privacy, it seems, is
what makes us civilized, 00:25:25 Canadian legislation:
Privacy Act Access to Information Act Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms PIPEDA (Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act), 00:30:28
NetCare is province-wide etc. etc.
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Many presentations about the future of medicine
show present day technology related to genomics
and personalized medicine, smart phone apps.
In the future most present day diseases may be
eliminated. Medicine of the future will be
increasingly about human enhancement and
about improvements in society that promote
health and well being.
Rudolph Virchow –”Physicians are the natural
attorneys of the poor and the social problems
should be largely solved by them.”
41. “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else than
medicine writ large. Medicine as a social science, as the
science of human beings, has the obligations to point out
problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the
politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for
their practical solution. ”
– Rudolf Virchow
42. “It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the
most horrible situations by habituation. Physicians are the
natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should
largely be solved by them.”
– Rudolf Virchow
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Analytics and big data in medicine are not just
about diseases and treatments.
Also about human enhancement and about
improvements in society that promote health and
well being.
Technology advances themselves closely tied to
future of medicine, robotics, nanotechnology.
In an optimistic view of the future of medicine,
medicine is huge, bigger than you ever imagined!
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The technological singularity occurs as artificial
intelligences surpass human beings as the
smartest and most capable life forms on the
Earth. Technological development is taken over
by the machines, who can think, act and
communicate so quickly that normal humans
cannot even comprehend what is going on. The
machines enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-
improvement cycles, with each new generation
of A.I.s appearing faster and faster. From this
point onwards, technological advancement is
explosive, under the control of the machines,
and thus cannot be accurately predicted (hence
the term "Singularity"). – Ray Kurzweil
48. Evidence for the Coming
Technological Singularity
1. Time Magazine cover Feb.
2011 “2045: The Year Man
Becomes Immortal”
2. IBM’s Watson computer beats
top human contenders on
Jeopardy!
3. Foxconn announces plans to
replace one milion workers
with one million robots Nov.
2012
4. The Technological Singularity
appears in Dilbert March 2013
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1) The technological Singularity.
2) Existential risks, AI, genomics, and nanotech.
Post-scarcity world possible.
3) Ways to optimize a positive outcome for
humanity in the co-evolution of humans and
machines.
4) The influence of these considerations on
medicine of the future.
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Regulatory oversight that is completely focused
on compliance. Discourages risk-taking and
innovation.
Health care doesn't have the same financial
reward system. Facebook isn't about to pay $1
billion for the latest hot-ticket item in imaging
and informatics.
Security always trumps information sharing, and
so better, faster linkages are constrained
because of security concerns, most of which are
bogus.
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PBS Nova Program reaches 100 million viewers.
Big Bang Theory (the TV show)16 million viewers.
Ray Kurzweil TED talk 1.2 million views.
Singularity Summit, 9,000 views per video.
Kim Solez – Technology and Future of Medicine
Course LABMP 590 1,400 views per video.
The course is part of the solution:
http://www.singularitycourse.com
As is this lecture! Questions?