EDGE 2025 - Robin Farmanfarmaian: Get a Grip on Your Health
EDGE 2025 Excerpts
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Leveraging wearable technology and AI to revolutionize healthcare, join Robin Farmanfarmaian on an exploration of the emerging technology reimagining everything from engaging your brain to managing chronic health conditions.
Key Takeaways:
- Transforming Healthcare: Robin Farmanfarmaian shared how AI is transforming old healthcare technologies like EKGs, vital sign monitoring, and medical imaging.
- New Healthcare Technologies: There are new ways to measure health, such as using vocal biomarkers, movement as a vital sign, and apps that can measure blood pressure, cholesterol, and other metrics using a smartphone.
- Growth Through Predictive Technologies: Predictive analytics and early detection are advancing, with technologies predicting health events like COPD exacerbations and atrial fibrillation before symptoms appear.
- Emerging Services in Healthcare: Direct-to-consumer health services like liquid biopsies and MRI scans are emerging and are enabled by AI-powered analysis.
- The Importance of Baselines: Establishing health baselines, especially for brain health, is crucial for tracking changes over time.
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