# Take health care off the mainframe

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2009
- Speaker: Eric Dishman
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_the_mainframe)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.

## Lectures

1. [Take health care off the mainframe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/eric_dishman_take_health_care_off_the_mainframe/4ab2ca9d5046), 17 min (TED's player)