[p2p-research] P2P Medicine -- Making Your Smart Phone into an Ultrasound Device

Thu Apr 23 04:09:50 CEST 2009

Hi Michel,

AI and robotics will continue to reduce the level of specialization required
by people.

The surgical robots used today are already programmed with certain surgical
maneuvers (e.g. they know how to hold a knife and make certain cuts and the
doctor has to only give the green light)

So it's easy to see someone with just a college degree (instead of 11 years
of medical schooling) operate these smart systems. I'm not saying that we
will have zero human intervention in the near future but I'm saying that it
democratizes the whole field of medicine by lowering the specialization
level required to conduct medical tests and procedures. That's already
happening and has been happening for decades.

Marc

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:23 AM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you're on the spot there as far as the long term evolution of the
>> health market.
>>
>> Doctors can be replaced with expert systems. Surgeons can be replaced with
>> robots.
>
>
>
> I personally think that's a fallacy and that expert systems will help
> doctors (and patients), and robots will help surgeons ... I've seen little
> evidence of such total replacement in very complex systems requiring
> judgment calls
>
>
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>>
>> Medical and pharmaceutical researchers, bioinformatics researchers, et al
>> will still be needed. I know that some will say they too can be replaced
>> with discovery software couped to bots that can do experiments but that's a
>> little far fetched now since we haven't really cracked what 'creativity' is
>> and how major breakthroughs come to us. If we had, we wouldn't be
>> collaborating here.. we'd let our AI agents do all the
>> creative/philosophical thinking/problem solving.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> If you dis-intermediate a x-ray tech and still use a doctor, you are
>>> moving toward p2p.
>>>
>>> And I can imagine iPhones with the capacity to analyze self imaging...
>>> Spot your own breaks, cancers, tooth decay by using tech.  Why not?  Set
>>> your own bone?  Maybe you stop by a robot room.
>>>
>>> Who needs a nutritionist?  A personal trainer?  Only people who don't
>>> have machines that allow them to share consistent processes and best
>>> practices.  Even sports...we don't need coaches as much as we need analyses
>>> of bio-physics compared to large networks of performance measures given
>>> similar styles, flaws, etc.  Is my elbow too bent?  My hand too high?
>>> Compare me to everyone who is also 6'2" who has a better swing than me...we
>>> all share data and performance metrics...
>>>
>>> Also, P2P has to start us rapidly on the path to bots as peers.  That's
>>> true in physical/medical realms, soon, I'd guess.
>>>
>>> Ryan Lanham
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know that supplements are a big market.
>>>>
>>>> How about self-use medical devices? I thought that's what you're
>>>> referring to re: Smartphone ultrasound scanner.
>>>>
>>>> As far as defibrillators go, I know that they're not in wide use. They
>>>> cost around $1000.
>>>>
>>>> On the other hand, blood sugar and pregnancy testing devices are used
>>>> widely.
>>>>
>>>> I guess it depends on the kind of device and its price.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Med sites amongst the largest on the web, Marc.  People playing doctor
>>>>> all day every day.  Supplements will one day surpass big pharma I predict.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan Lanham
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:17 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> People are not yet into playing doctor ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For example, defibrillators save lives but less than 1% of seniors
>>>>>> have them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "DIY or DIE" would be a good message in case of the defibrillators.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, MO have turned a
>>>>>>> smart phone into an ultrasound platform.  It is now possible to have
>>>>>>> relatively sophisticated medical imaging virtually anywhere in the world.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/13928.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ryan Lanham
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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