dr. michael blum about the future of medicine. >> you have to bring together these different organizationsnd cultures to get to the space where we need to be. as an academic health center, we will not build huge databases. that is what they are going to do. they are great at that stuff but they don't know anything about political process were doing clinical trials, discovering what works biologically. we are working on these novel partnerships. >> monday night at 8:00 on "the communicators." >> each week, american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. you are looking at the petersen house in washington where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:22 april 15 of 1855. -- 1865. up next, a tour of the boardinghouse across the street from ford's theatre where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. >> this is an interesting house that has a great history even before abraham lincoln was assassinated. this house was built in the early

dr. michael blum at the university of california, san francisco. dr. blum: i am the director of the university of california san francisco's center for digital health innovation, and we look at patient portals and things like that, but we are also working at a very transformative time and we look at traditional patient care moving into new technology that will have dramatic impact and have a transition out of this time where we have patience who -- patients who are managed and we are looking at preventative care and wellness preservation and we are actually transitioning to the best thing that we can do, but to keep you out of our grasp altogether, and that means wellness management, prevention, but that means when you are, you give out some of these i'm using new technologies to help manage some of those diseases, and transmitting the knowledge out of these new digital technologies, these new sensors, algorithms cloud-based technologies all of these new buzzwords, and get that knowledge to your provider, so you have a doctor, a nurse, a physician's as

dr. michael blum about developments in medical technology and the future of medicine. >> you have to bring. together those two very different organizations, two different dnas and cultures to get to that space where we need to be. we're not going to invent these sensors and build huge cloud data databases. that's what they are going to do. they are great at that stuff, but they don't know about clinical process or doing clinical trials, discovering what really works. so we're working on these novel partnerships marrying the two up and trying to attack the space. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span 2. >>> the house science, space and technology committee held a hearing last week on the benefits of hydraulic fracking. the process of injecting water, sand and chemicals into rock deposits deep underground to release natural gas. republican congressman lamar smith chairs the committee and eddie johnson is the ranking member. >> the committee on science, space and technology will come to order. the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. welcome to today's hear