While some people talk about the future of medicine, others actually live in it. Dr. Derek O’Keefe calls himself a physicianeer, which is a combination doctor/engineer, and he’s been working with NASA to help the agency better monitor its astronauts and to provide treatment at a distance. Through his experiences, Dr. O’Keefe has seen the kind of health monitoring that is possible and that is probable for most of us in the coming years.
Here’s a talk that Dr. O’Keefe gave at TEDxGalway about what the medical future will be like once wearable medical technologies, and ways to process the data they gather, become ubiquitous:
Dr. O’Keefe’s Twitter feed: @Physicianeer…