Creative Destruction of Medicine (Revised and Expanded Edition) How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

Name: Creative Destruction of Medicine (Revised and Expanded Edition) How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
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ISBN: 9780465061839

ISBN-10: 0465061834

ISBN-13: 9780465061839

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Authors: Eric Topol

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While we now use our iPhones and blackberries to send email and surf the Web, soon we could be using them to check our vital signs. The technology already exists for us to continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature ultrasound imaging devices are replacing the icon of medicinethe stethoscope. DNA sequencing, Facebook, and the Watson supercomputer have already saved lives. For the first time we can digitize” humanscapturing all the relevant data from each individual to enable precision therapy, prevent major side effects of medications, and ultimately prevent many diseases from ever occurring. The world is awash with medical…

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List price: $19.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 8/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.13" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction



Setting the Foundation



The Digital Landscape: Cultivating a Data-Driven, Participatory Culture



The Orientation of Medicine Today: Population Versus Individual



To What Extent Are Consumers Empowered? Clicks and Tricks



Capturing the Data



Physiology: Wireless Sensors



Biology: Sequencing the Genome



Anatomy: From Imaging to Printing Organs



Electronic Health Records and Health Information Technology



The Convergence of Human Data Capture



The Impact of Homo Digitus



Doctors with Plasticity?



Rebooting the Life Science Industry



Homo Digitus and the Individual


Postscript


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index