The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care

The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care / Eric Topol.

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, hu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Topol, Eric J., 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Medical care.
Communication in medicine.
Internet in medicine.
Medical informatics.
Information resources management.
Medicine > Data processing.
Biomedical engineering.
Diffusion of innovations.
biomedical engineering.
MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Medical Technology.
MEDICAL > Biotechnology.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Lasers in Medicine.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Biomedical.
Medicine > Data processing
Diffusion of innovations
Biomedical engineering
Communication in medicine
Information resources management
Internet in medicine
Medical care
Medical informatics
Medicine > Information resources.
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Table of Contents:
  • The digital landscape
  • The orientation of medicine today
  • To what extent are consumers empowered?
  • 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
  • Doctors with plasticity?
  • The rebooted life science industry
  • The individual.

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