Current technology, whose most recent link is artificial intelligence, allows to create a user -centered human and medical care system, whether they are healthy or sick, experts who work in the development of the “superhuman” and disabled people to whom these advances have changed their lives.
“I was very interested in the concept of how networks, large linguistic models and real -time data could help people anticipate the first disease,” said the cardiologist and director of the USC Center for Body Computing at the University of Southern California, Leslie Saxon, who was also a pioneer in digital health in the US.
Medicine and technology are “giving a handshake” to see if both can together “increase the human being to advance to the first disease, which is what many billionaires in my country try to stop achieving longevity,” he said in a meeting with journalists at the artificial intelligence summit for the common good in gin.
Very wealthy people approach it with an unconfessable desire for immortality, explain that they have money, a comfortable life and ask how they can maintain that and increase not only their years of life, but also their quality.
“And I think the way to achieve this is to anticipate the first disease. When you are an elite athlete, the first injury predisposes you to more injuries, once you have a chronic disease, you will suffer acute episodes of that disease. You need to measure each individual, their heart rate or arrhythmia, their metabolism, cognition and fatigue, treat the human being as a system,” he explained.
That also includes knowing how the patient grew, what has been his socioeconomic level throughout his life, if he has passed deprivations or, on the contrary, he has had economic resources in abundance, if this favored or harmed him, and what his environmental factors have been, among other information.
Leslie said that in this equation the data is fundamental and have a positive effect because they allow the user to involve and motivate him to assume responsibility for his health.
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“We give you the data on you, personalized, we show you how they impact your health. This tends to accelerate behavior change because people are not simply ignorant or lazy, what happens is that they do not have the information they need to act in their own interest,” he said.
Medical technology and traumatic amputations
Sharing the stage at the summit with Saxon was the British young Tilly Lockey, who suffered the amputation of her hands at 15 months of birth and now uses highly effective bionic hands.
They were also accompanied by the British paralympic athlete Charlotte Henshwa, who being a baby suffered a bilateral leg amputation due to a congenital defect; And the Brazilian Rodrigo Mendes, the first paraplegic person who could drive a racing car only with the mind.
Lockey, whose disability was due to meningitis combined with septicemia and that no doctor thought he could survive, he said that he hopes that the technology that she has been able to benefit can be increasingly affordable for the people who need it.
While making a demonstration, he explained that he handles his bionic prosthesis with two buttons and two simple muscle movements that control the entire hand and the gestures of opening, closing, grabbing or making signs.
On the other hand, Henshwa – originally swimmer, but that has become athlete in multiple disciplines – uses prosthetic legs with technology that he considered “quite basic”, although to show how fast science progresses in this area commented that a few years ago he had the opportunity to try “a couple of legs with microprocessors”.
Mendes, who runs an institution dedicated to promoting the access of children with disabilities to regular education, said that during his participation in a television program he was launched by the challenge of using a device that would allow him to drive a racing car using his mind, which initially did not believe possible.
“Imagine being inside a racing car that has no steering wheel or pedals and that you are wearing a helmet with electrodes that read your brain waves. And well, I remember the moment when the leader of the project came and said: ‘Ok, Rodrigo, are you ready? Can you start?’ I concentrated, I breathed deeply and gave the first order: accelerate.
With EFE information
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