Kim Solez, MD

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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-technology-and-future-of-medicine-course-sept-6-2012

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 atwww.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.”

“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

“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!

Medicine Writ LargeKim Solez, M.D.

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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

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?