TED Talks has a good presentation by Bill Davenhall titled Your health depends on where you live. It’s an interesting talk on the new science of geomedicine (so new I couldn’t find geomedicine on Wikipedia). This must be why Dr. House orders his staff to do so many home invasions.
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I recently blogged about Davenhall’s TED Talk (http://www.mditv.com/blog/?p=841). I’m intrigued by geo-medicine, but I’m not entirely sold on its usefulness. There needs to be a lot of questions answered, like who has access to the data outside of the patient-physician relationship. What are your thoughts?
There are some problems. For many diseases we don’t know enough to get by the correlation vs causation problem, and even though as a geographer-type I hate to admit it, not everything has a meaningful spatial aspect. Ever since John Snow and the cholera stuff we’ve been overreaching in that regard.
I’m a little less leery about data access – regional epidemiology has been around long enough to work those kinds of issues out. Though I could be wrong there – every time I start reading HIPAA regs I become instantly catatonic.