Some surprising trends in health care

Looks like I'm going to work closely with some pharma and health-care companies in the near future. So it's a good time to dig deeper in some of the trends affecting this industry (see my presentation at the European Pharma CI conference for an overview of all the trends I currently see in this sector).

Let's start with some TED talks, always a good start...

• Printing a human liver -well, we're pretty close to it ('a couple of years', as said in the disclaimer)... and for those of you who are concerned about the body rejecting a printed liver: don't forget that this one is made by your own cells !

• Crowdsourcing could help with very simple things... like mapping local difilibrators. Simple enough to make it work: 

• And here's some surprising use of social networks... to predict epidemics in a very early stage: