He is the author of Digital Medicine: Implications for Healthcare Leaders .
If Proteus is right, and these sensors become commonplace, exponential growth in digital medicine for compliance monitoring will require as much silicon wafer manufacturing as all computer chips use today.
Digital health will ultimately revolutionize medicine, but it will get there through a series of evolutionary phases.
That's the term Topol uses in his 2012 book, "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, " to refer to the transformation that accompanies radical innovation.
Topol makes his case in a new book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, released as an eBook today and scheduled for hardcover release from Basic Books in January.
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This advance in the realm of medicine comes, oddly enough, from the digital world of fiber optics and laser printers, courtesy of engineers and scientists at Xerox Corp.
Digital health aspires to elevate human health and the practice of medicine by enabling providers to offer compassionate care with engaged patients, care that is informed by both updated, evidence-driven guidelines and patient data of almost unimaginable richness and depth.
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As I explained in an earlier post, we are entering a new digital paradigm, where vastly more powerful computers will revolutionize industries ranging from medicine to energy to manufacturing.
For women with dense breasts, it's best to get a digital scan, which is more accurate, says Karla Kerlikowske, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
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