Get health care off ‘mainframe': TEDMED speaker
By Michael Miller · Feb 20, 2015
In “Take health care off the mainframe,” Eric Dishman from Intel argues in a TEDMED Talk that our health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes.
Actually, the hospital model hasn’t changed much since the 1600s when the first one was started in Vienna. We must look at health care in fundamentally different ways. It’s imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.
“(The) shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for health care,” Dishman says. “We have to shift from this mainframe mentality of health care to a personal model of health care.”