The Quantified Patient Checks In – IEEE
Like eight-year-olds who can't let go of a good joke, Larry Smarr's nurses and doctors kept coming to him with the same question: "Have you passed gas yet?" Answering this question in the affirmative is, Smarr explains, deadpan, "the state of the art in 2017 in the medical community for deciding when your colon restarts".
Larry Smarr Talks Machine Intelligence at Jackson State – HPC Wire
JACKSON, Miss., April 13, 2017 — Dr. Larry Smarr, physicist and Big Data thought leader, practices what he preaches.Look twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.
Welcome to my colon: A tech pioneer turns to virtual reality to guide his own surgery – STAT News
Spend enough time with Larry Smarr and, chances are, he’ll invite you to step inside his colon.This UC San Diego Professor Planned His Surgery In Virtual Reality – KPBS
UC San Diego's Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, monitors his sleep and has had his DNA sequenced. But he takes the whole self-tracking thing farther than most. He has mapped his internal organs in three dimensions. He even has a 3-D printed model of part of his colon.