The conference that I bring you today brings us a very interesting point of view to see healing. Eric Dishman works for Intel, the well-known technology device company.
Eric's life changed the day he fainted at college. After going through two hospitals, he was diagnosed with two rare diseases that attack the kidney. They gave him 2-3 years to live. However, the diagnosis was wrong and served him to embark on a crusade to change the current obsolete healthcare system.
Eric, at one point in the conference, does something surprising. He takes out an ultrasound device that, connected to his smartphone, allows him to a live ultrasound of your kidney and project the images on a screen. But not only that, his doctor, who is miles away, thanks to a videoconference, guides him so that Eric can take the ultrasound images he needs to make an assessment. All in a minute and without the need to go to any hospital.
This demonstration is the essence of Eric Dishman's message. His proposal to change the healthcare model is based on three fundamental pillars:
1) Ubiquitous attention. In the vast majority of cases, it is not necessary that we go to a hospital to be cured (this idea is best developed with examples in his conference).
2) Coordinated and networked care. Doctors, from different hospitals and specialties, need greater coordination. This lack of coordination nearly killed Eric Dishman with a heart attack. Different doctors had prescribed (under different names) the same drug that in high doses can cause a heart attack.
3) Personalized attention. Thanks to Intel technology and the calculation of a team of people, they managed to sequence his genome in eight weeks and thanks to that they realized that his diagnosis of his kidney disease was wrong.
I leave you with this interesting e innovative conference: