Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine









Filmed in Oct. 2009, Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

This future is already upon us. Unfortunately, like so much of modern medicine it's reactionary and doesn't address the reasons we need help in the first place.

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See also: Medicine's future? There's an app for that