Title:
The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care
Author:
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, c2012.
Physical Description:
xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780465025503
Abstract:
Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of success. Well, Eric Topol isn't most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar.
Contents:
Setting the foundation. Digital landscape: cultivating a data-driven, participatory culture -- The orientation of medicine today -- 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 systems -- The convergence of human data capture -- The impact of Homo digitus. Doctors with plasticity? -- Rebooting the life science industry -- Homo digitus and the individual.
Language:
English
