technological advancements that help our minds and bodies

1. TECHNOLOGY WILL SAVE OUR MINDS
AND BODIES
By: David Chraca

2. INTRODUCTION
Technology is constantly improving and in turn
helping the medical field drastically, in ways such
as:
• Data crunching
• Communication
• Networking
• Helping patients stay healthy

3. DATA
CRUNCHING
Researchers and IBM have
been developing a super
computer, called Watson. This
computer is going to help
doctors and physicians
diagnose patients better, and
recommend treatments and
medicine that will help the
patient the best. Doctors are
people to and make mistakes,
whether it’s a bad diagnosis or
wrong prescription, sometimes
they make mistakes. This super
computer would essentially
eliminate the possibility of this
happening.
Actual computer built by IBM. Used in
Jeopardy and won. Now being manufactured
to help healthcare professionals

4. HOW WATSON CAN ADDRESS HEALTH
CARE CHALLENGES
• By using language capabilities,
hypothesis generation, and
evidence-based learning to
support medical professionals as
they make decisions.
• The physician will describe
symptoms and other related
factors, Watson will then
process information and
identify.
• Watson then checks the patient
data to find relevant facts about
family history, medications and
other conditions.
• It combines all to form
hypotheses and test them.
• Watson will then provide a list
of potential diagnoses along
with a score next to each, than
identifies probability and
confidence in answer.

5. COMMUNICATION
WITH PATIENTS
A new application called
“OMNIFLUENT HEALTH” has been
created by the SAIC. It is a translation
program for doctors and other
medical professionals. Essentially, a
doctor is able to download this
software on a smartphone, speak into
in and it translates this message into
any other language.
Obviously there are already apps that
can do similar things, but this is
focused directly on the medical field
and recognizes and defines medical
terms most apps wouldn’t be able to.
Also, in the USA alone there is
approximately 47 million residents
that don’t speak English fluently so
this would definitely be useful in
places like USA and Canada, where
there are is a melting pot of different
cultures and languages.

6. HOW OMNIFLUENT HELPS
• The language barrier is a big deal when trying to diagnosis someone
properly or giving them medical instructions, everything must be clear and
precise.
• There are many people whose primary language is not English, this has
challenged hospitals to find a cost-effective solution for communicating
with patients.
• The average cost of telephone interpretation is $132 an hour and $32 for
salaried staff interpreters. The average time spent on a patient encounter
was 25 minutes. Multiply that by however many patients in a day, and that
could add up to a very large cost.
• Omnifluent Health lowers these costs drastically, to the point medical
professionals are spending merely cents per minute with translation
accuracy similar to that of trained human medical interpreters.

7. NETWORKING
New social networking sites are
helping doctors work better, by
being in touch with medical
professionals all over the world,
Asking questions and discussing
information, which can help their
patients better. This is the
foundation of the new
networking site/application
called “DOXIMITY”.

8. A New-York start up, called SHERPAA, is now
offering patients consultations over the phone and
online, saving them a trip to the ER or doctors
office.
Very cost-effective and saves people a lot of time.

9. HELPING PATIENTS
STAY HEALTHY
• There are so many gadgets and apps
available for smart phones now, that
focus on health.
• New smart watches track calories
burnt, heart rate, eating habits etc…
• New apps such as “LARK”, a silent
alarm that tracks a persons sleeping
patterns and movement, and offers
suggestions on how to get a better
sleep.
• Apps that adjust meal plans,
workout routines, sleep, and much
more are helping patients stay
healthy using new technology.

10. BIGGEST INNOVATIONS OF 2014
• We witnessed some of the best innovative health
care technologies ever, in 2014.
• The pace at which technology is impacting our
healthcare and everyday lives is incredible.
• In the following slides I will go over some of the
best innovations of 2014.

11. Wearable Technology
Digestible Sensors
Google Glass.
• Glasses that help doctors
interact better with patients.
• Can pull up data or
prescription history, can wear
during surgery and look up
related information.
• Digestible sensors will continue
to provide medical
professionals more insight on
how the human body works.
• The sensor is swallowed and
than transmits information to
doctors that can better diagnose
and treat a patients conditions.

12. Nanobots in Blood
• Still being developed, but the
future is coming where these
tiny robots will functioning
like a white blood cell and
destroy bacteria and other
pathogens.
UPCOMING TECHNOLOGIES

13. Robotic “Flight Simulator” Surgery
• Surgical procedures have always
required lots of real life practise,
until recently. The Roswell Park
Institute and a group of engineers
from the University of Buffalo
have made the RoSS. No sane
person would fly in a plane with
someone learning on the job, and
the same should be said with
doctors and surgeons. This
simulator allows real life views
and allow surgeons to practise
without fear of losing their patient.
Truly an amazing invention.

14. CONCLUSION
• I believe the information I have covered in this
presentation shows how technology is advancing
and allowing us to keep in touch and stay
healthier using new gadgets and applications.
• Also the future is looking bright, the
technologies I covered from 2014 have, or are
starting to, be developed and put to practise.

15. REFERENCES
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• Govette, J. (2015, February 10). 10 Biggest Innovations in Health Care
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16. • IBM Watson: Ushering in a new era of computing. (n.d.). Retrieved April
12, 2015, from http://www-
03.ibm.com/innovation/ca/en/watson/index.shtml
• SAIC's Omnifluent Health Reduces Hospital Interpretation Costs To Cents
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