What is the future of medicine?

The time is approaching where more and more of our personal data will be quantified. This will allow us to understand our personal biology better and make informed decisions on what actions to take. The days of guessing and blindly following gurus is coming to a close.

Daniel Kraft does a great job of illustrating what the future will look like in this brilliant TEDx talk. He offers a fast paced look at the next few years of innovation in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that will bring diagnostic information to a patients bedside. The future of medicine is looking bright!

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has chaired the Medicine Track for Singularity University since SU’s inception, and founded and is Executive Director of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.

“I see a world where no one ever dies from an adverse drug reaction; where physicians have an entire range of medicines to choose from to treat a deadly disease; where medications target tumors like smart bombs and leave surrounding tissues unharmed; where genetic susceptibility to disease can be determined in childhood, and possibly even prevented.” – Tim Downs

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