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The latest on Salvatore Iaconesi: the continued momentum of open-sourcing cancer cures

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
November 7, 2012 at 9:50 am EDT

“This is my brain cancer. It isn’t nice,” says Salvatore Iaconesi, the engineer, artist and TED Fellow who recently opened up his medical files to the world, crowdsourcing cures of the medical type as well as those for the soul. In this just-released talk from TEDxTransmedia, Iaconesi explains why he made the decision to release […]

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How Salvatore Iaconesi has started a movement for open-source medical files

Posted By Kate Torgovnick
October 2, 2012 at 9:50 am EDT

In early September, data artist and TED Fellow Salvatore Iaconesi announced to the world that he had brain cancer. And he refused to let his medical records stay sealed. “They were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the […]