Horizon. [Series 50, Episode 2], Monitor me / produced & directed by Olly Bootle ; BBC Science production.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bootle, Olly, director, producer.

Fong, Kevin, 1971- on-screen presenter.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

BBC Worldwide Ltd., film distributor.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations.

Genre:

Educational television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

With smartphone apps and consumer gadgets, we can all monitor more and more about our daily lives. Dr Kevin Fong finds out how digital technology is bringing about a revolution in medicine. He meets pioneers in monitoring, from the leading physician who's more likely to prescribe apps than drugs to his patients; to the most monitored man in the world, who spotted his illness from numbers, not from symptoms; to the Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who can monitor how people are using their phones to diagnose depression and even track flu. Finally Kevin meets someone who he sees as the future of medicine: a teenage computer scientist, someone who he believes will be able to mine the data that we all produce via self-monitoring, and uncover secrets about human health.

Participant:

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Fong.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 19, 2019).

OCLC:

1096488807