Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The creative destruction of medicine

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

756157730

Responsibility statement

Eric Topol

Sub title

how the digital revolution will create better health care

Summary

A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives

Table Of Contents

Part I: 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 -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: The impact of homo digitus. Doctors with plasticity? -- Rebooting the life science industry -- Homo digitus and the individual

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