The Future of Health with Dr Rob Grenfell

The Future of Health with Dr Rob Grenfell. He's the Health Director of the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit at the University of Melbourne, Dr Rob Grenfell took a seat with Mike to chat about wearable tech, health records in the cloud, and whether AI will really help us form healthier habits.

In this episode Mike asks:
00:00 (Introduction)
01:28 Where is health going? Are we going to live forever?
02:06 So what's the future looking like? I've got one of these things on my wrist, which is a device that helps me monitor my health to a very limited extent. Are we going to see more of that type of thing coming onto the market?
03:03 Where do you see wearable tech going? How much tech will we be wearing?
04:46 We've got a massive obesity issue and it's growing. How are we going to deal with that going into the future?
06:16 How important is it that we share our health data with our GP or health professional?
08:35 What about when it comes to extending our lives, and potentially to the point where we're going to live forever? Where do you sit with that?
09:55 Isn't it partly terrifying thinking about age extension in terms of decades? Isn't there a whole sustainability side of the coin that we need to be conscious of?
11:53 Does science fiction play a role in here? Does it provide any inspiration for what happens here?
13:32 To summarise, what is the future of health? What do you think the most dramatic vision of the future of health is?
14:04 Like real-time diagnostics to prevent bad health? So it's less about treatment and more about prevention?
14:29 What about when things do go wrong and you need a transplant. Do you look at things like growing body parts?
14:47 What are organoids?
16:00 I saw in your report that there’s quite a bit happening in terms of diagnostics and helping people deal with mental health issues. Is that true?

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