When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise as a medical tech specialist together to suggest a bold idea for reinventing health care -- by putting the patient at the center of a treatment team.

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.

In his talk, “Escaping One-Size-Fits-All Medicine with Your Life,” Dishman will share the promise and challenges of making Precision Health available to everyone, drawing upon his advocacy for cancer patients, his work at Intel and NIH, and his own survival of a well-intentioned healthcare system that still struggles to treat us as individuals.