The Creative Destruction of Medicine
In La Jolla, California, Eric J. Topol, M.D., is a professor of innovative medicine and the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. At the Cleveland Clinic, he founded the world's first cardiovascular gene bank and conducted one of the first trials of a genetically engineered protein for treating heart attacks. He received his training at Johns Hopkins University.
What if your phone could detect cancer cells in your blood or alert you to an impending heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, such as smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have transformed our lives by enabling hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. However, the digital world has yet to penetrate the medical cocoon.
Until now, that is. We'll soon be checking our vital signs on our phones instead of reading email and surfing the web. While we sleep, we can already continuously monitor our heart rate, blood glucose levels, and brain waves. The stethoscope is being replaced by miniature ultrasound imaging devices. Already, DNA sequencing, Facebook, and the Watson supercomputer have saved lives. For the first time, we can collect all relevant data from each individual in order to enable precision therapy, avoid major side effects of medications, and, ultimately, prevent many diseases from occurring. Despite this, many of these digital medical innovations go unutilized due to the medical community's strong resistance to change. Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians and a leading voice on the digital revolution in medicine, argues in The Creative Destruction of Medicine that radical innovation and true democratization of medical care are within reach, but only if we consumers demand it. We have the ability to force medicine to undergo its most radical transformation in history. This book explains what the stakes are—and how to win them.
Author: Eric Topol
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Medicine-Digital-Revolution/dp/0465025501/
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