Name: Jamie Heywood: La gran idea que mi hermano inspiró
Uploaded: 2010-02-02T09:37:00Z
Duration: 16 min 37 s
Description: When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.

Cada año, TED colabora con un grupo selecto de empresas y fundaciones para identificar a personas con gran potencial: generadores de ideas, inventores, conectores y creadores. Siguiendo el mismo riguroso método que prepara a los oradores para el escenario principal de TED, el Instituto TED trabaja estrechamente con cada socio, supervisando la selección de contenidos y ofreciendo un desarrollo intensivo e individualizado de las charlas para perfeccionar las ideas. El resultado es un evento producido, grabado y presentado por TED, que genera una creciente colección de valiosas charlas TED capaces de impulsar la innovación y transformar las organizaciones.

When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict.

Jamie Heywood: La gran idea que mi hermano inspiró

By transforming personal illness experiences into shared data, patients can uncover patterns, test treatments, and support one another. One family's journey with ALS led to a global platform where 45,000 people collectively track symptoms and outcomes. This network revealed, ahead of formal studies, that some promising drugs offered little benefit, saving precious time and resources. Turning real lives into data points empowers patients to shape medical understanding in real time.