(Pictured on Left) Ezekiel Emanuel, Special Advisor for Health Policy, OMB, Executive Office of President Obama.
The organizers of TEDMED managed to get Emanuel to close out the second day of the event with a sit-down discussion, however, he was under strict orders not to discuss health reform. Emanuel, instead, discussed health systems generally, vaguely described his relationship with his brother, Rahm Emanuel and admitted he no longer eats any of the food he grew up on.
Finally, Emanuel said he did not believe that patients are willing to give up much of their time to monitor their health and become more empowered. Emanuel said that in 20 years physicians will still retain the same role they always have.
Slide 1 – Dr. Phillip Low, Founder, Chairman and CEO of NeuroVigil
Dr. Phillip Low, Founder, Chairman and CEO of NeuroVigil with event organizers Richard Saul Wurman and Marc Hodosh. Pictured top left is a live feed EEG broadcasting from the wireless sensor worn by Hodosh
Low convinced TEDMED organizer Marc Hodosh to don an EEG sensor and livestream his brainwave to his smartphone. Low also instructed Hodosh to blink so that the audience could see the change in his brainwaves in real-time. NeuroVigil aims to use this system to help people monitor for sleep disorders and other neuropathologies.
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October 30th, 2009 at 5:45 am
“Emanuel said he did not believe that patients are willing to give up much of their time to monitor their health and become more empowered. Emanuel said that in 20 years physicians will still retain the same role they always have”
I find it hard to believe Ezekiel Emanuel could claim that the physicians role is so static. Has he NOT seen the rise of empowered patients presenting to their Doctor carrying a clutch of information that they have found by googling their condition? This wasn’t happening even 10 years ago when medical libraries were paper based and inaccessible. Is he unaware of the Physician Rating sites that patients are visiting?
In 2009 Doctors are already remotely consulting with Patients using technologies like 3G Video Mobiles… such technology didn’t exist even 10 years ago so I don’t know how anyone could be confident about predicting the changes we’ll see in the next 20 years. The role of the Doctor has never remained static but the next 20 years will be a period of transformation – driven by acceptance that empowered patients will actually know more about their health than their Doctors.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
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