What happens when the data of health is inspired by the poetry of care?
Inside each of us beats a symbol of love that’s all too capable of breaking us apart. Watch the TEDMED 2013 stage as poetic voice Sekou Andrews helps …
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Jonathan Bush – Q&A at TEDMED 2013
Can healthier competition help save healthcare from itself? Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, takes questions at TEDMED 2013.
For Profit & Non-Profits: Can this marriage be saved?
Is it fair to profit from healthcare? Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, reveals how he thinks about the difficulties of aligning payer and profit in U.S. healthcare at …
How can science and business team up for the long (health) haul?
Laura Deming, partner in The Longevity Fund and a Thiel Fellow, tells attendees at TEDMED 2013 how she found the next emerging market through her passion for extending …
If truth is beauty, can art be science?
How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? Biomed engineer David Odde asked Black Label Movement dancers to help him interpret science, gaining insights into his own research …
What happens when each patient becomes their own “universe” of unique medical data?
We leave a trail of digital data breadcrumbs as we go about our days. With access and good apps, we could make sense of this “small data” to …
What happens when patients become leaders on the health team?
Who knows better how to heal a community than those who inhabit it? America Bracho’s Latino Health Access trains local promotoras to teach neighbors and friends how to …
What does a $100 million public health data revolution look like?
Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Physician and health economist Christopher J.L. Murray is changing the way we measure and visualize global health. Here, …
Can you coordinate the dance of your body’s 100 trillion microorganisms?
Astrophysicist turned computer programmer Larry Smarr talks about how charting his bodily inputs and outputs in minute detail revealed the true ecology of the quantified self.
David Agus & Jay Walker: A Cancer Framework
Part 1 of 5: David Agus and Jay Walker elaborate on their talk from TEDMED 2013, discussing Cancer