Telehealth

Welcome to Y Touring's virtual scrapbook for the development of our new Theatre of Debate project on Telehealth. Add any ideas you have as an image, video, quote, text , chat or audio quote.

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Gimmick or a useful gadget

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 As if we didn't already have enough to be neurotic about, a man at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference gave a presentation detailing how he could take control of insulin pumps from miles away and kill his victims. ..............................

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A leading practitioner explains why Scotland is ahead when it comes to using telemedicine

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Health secretary says that superfast broadband should enable more tests and consultations in the home

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When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found the medical treatment that saved his life. Now he calls on all patients to talk with one another, know their own health data, and make health care better one e-Patient at a time.

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Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- but not for the squeamish.

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Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer’s.

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To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

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Dr. Ernest Madu runs the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Kingston, Jamaica, where he proves that -- with careful design, smart technical choices, and a true desire to serve -- it's possible to offer world-class healthcare in the developing world.

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When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.

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Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can measure -- in gloriously geeky detail. At TED@Cannes

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An invisible revolution has taken place is the way we use the net, but the increasing personalisation of information by search engines such as Google threatens to limit our access to information and enclose us in a self-reinforcing world view, writes Eli Pariser in an extract from The Filter Bubble

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Experience the smartphone that outsmarts all others, this new gadget will change the world in 2011, witness the revolution in the field of smartphone technology

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My identity is Open 

A glimpse of your friends' future.

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My Identity is Open - Documentary http://www.my-miio.com 

Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everyone. A world with open data. A world where data protection and privacy are only relicts of the past. This documentation is about miio, a smartphone which uses high end face-recognition technology to identify and classify strangers. With a simple scan milo reveals whole identities. The videos shows how the little helper works and which risks are included. Interviewees like Peter Johan Hustinx, Constanze Kurz and Hans G. Zeger talk about and the impact on society of such a device. Other topics in the documentary are: post-privacy, social scoring, measurable and controllable sets, technology dependence and informational self-determination

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My Identity is Open - Documentary Film

http://www.my-miio.com  Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everyone. A world with open data. A world where data protection and privacy are only relicts of the past.  This documentation is about miio, a smartphone which uses high end face-recognition technology to identify and classify strangers. With a simple scan milo reveals whole identities. The videos shows how the little helper works and which risks are included.  Interviewees like Peter Johan Hustinx, Constanze Kurz and Hans G. Zeger talk about and the impact on society of such a device. Other topics in the documentary are: post-privacy, social scoring, measurable and controllable sets, technology dependence and informational self-determination.