How COVID-19 transformed the future of medicine | Daniel Kraft

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The pandemic forced the world to work together like never before and, with unprecedented speed, bore a new age of health and medical innovation. Physician-scientist Daniel Kraft explains how breakthroughs and advancements like AI-infused antiviral discoveries and laboratory-level diagnostic tools accessible via smartphones are paving the way for a more democratized, connected and data-driven future of medicine and personalized care.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.5	This is Ted Health.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:13.6	Medicine.
0:14.6	It's the only industry that's still using pages, fax machines, and paper charts to communicate.
0:20.9	I can tell you firsthand that health care is behind the times.
0:24.8	In his 2020 talk from Ted X Marin, Dr. Daniel Kraft shares how the COVID pandemic has accelerated
0:31.2	innovation in medicine.
0:33.4	He explains how we're not only headed into a new, democratized era of health, but also
0:38.7	one that's more proactive and digitally connected.
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0:58.8	18 and 35 live with their parents?
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1:13.1	As a small child, I was lucky to be at the launch of Apollo 17, the last band mission to
1:18.2	the moon.
1:19.2	I've remained enamored with space ever since, and fortunate as a physician to have contributed
1:24.3	to NASA life sciences research and to practice aerospace medicine, inspired by the cross-disciplinary
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