Intel’s Eric Dishman – Talking about the Shimmer platform at TEDMED

Eric Dishman (Chief Strategist and Global Director of Product Research, Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group) gave a talk at TEDMED 2009 titled ‘Take Health Care off the Mainframe’. He highlights the importance of behavioural markers in the early diagnosis of a medical issues for the elderly, and talks about how Intel have been utilising Shimmer in areas including fall prevention, tremor analysis to check for trends in motor deficiencies, gait analysis, and stride length.

Dishman pulls a Shimmer out of his sock at the 11.51 mark when addressing the issue of falls prevention for the elderly. Watch the video in full below:

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