Health and Business

                On March 8, 2014 morning was the symposium seminar for the emerging technologies in the field of health, while in the afternoon the seminar was for the emerging technologies in the field of business. The first speaker for the day was Dr. San Andres, he talked about the re-mineralization and is concentrating in the teeth or for dental purposes. When the talk flowed to the emerging technology part he then talked about GC Tooth Moose, this is entirely an alien kind of technology to me since I only go to my dentist when there is an appointment with the doctor that the doctor himself sets. Knowing of such technology is really a good thing since it is concerned in improving our health, health is entirely the most important thing in our live as when we aren’t healthy then we would just limit our own capabilities.

                 The second speaker for the day was, Dr. Eric Punzalan, he was talking about the chemistry and physics of modern medicine. On the start when he was talking about mercury fillings and that it is not really dangerous to us, I was like “what?” because ever since before the thermometer that we use to measure our body temperature has a mercury in it and is said to be very dangerous so we shouldn’t really break it and let the mercury loose in our house, so after hearing this talk from Dr. Punzalan about the mercury fillings I felt like my whole life was a lie. He then proceeded to x-ray and this is also the same as mercury as I didn’t know that getting an x-ray is actually bad for your health since it uses ionizing radiation. Gene therapy though on the other hand felt like it was an awesome topic to be discussed, due to the fact that I am a fan of anime and in the gundam series in the gundam seed there was these huge difference from being a natural human being and a coordinator (gene modified human being) as the capabilities of a coordinator are far better than a normal human being, with this in mind it was exciting to listen to the gene therapy although it is not yet doable in our current generation.

                The third speaker for the day was, Dr. Jerome Palaganas, he talked about the top technology trend in the healthcare industry. He talked about how smart t-shirt could be of help in people doing their exercises and as well as for athletes’ training which can be done in our generation. But then since we are years behind the technology from the 1^st world countries, we do not have this technologies yet in our country. Stem cell is also an interesting topic to be discussed as this could not only help improve our health but also can be used for other purposes like cloning of animals for consumption. Genome Editing is also the same as the Gene therapy that was discussed by the previous speaker, which is interesting too as we get to learn about the opinion of two different people.

                The afternoon session’s first speaker was Mr. Mike Garcia, he talked about data warehousing. He discussed about how data warehousing is entirely different from data base and that integrating different databases to compare and contrast the different data gathered would be able to make the data that you have consistent and would have quality, as well as save your time when you search for data in your warehouse, you would also have historical intelligence and better business intelligence.

                The second speaker was Ms. Cecile Ang and she was talking about the sweep card (a card that is able to integrate different kinds of cards that would associate with their company), what she was doing was entirely commercializing their own product even though what it only does is integrating different kinds of card and is not something new.

                The third speaker was Mr. Celmer Santos, he talked about the different technologies that could be reached in the market. He talked about chipped human which can be related to the Total Recall movie as they had technologies implanted in a human body, as can be seen in the protagonist that there was a device implanted in his hand so that he could be tracked by the authorities. QR codes as used in Korea are a much better technology to be used in buying things and checking things out than the bar code.