The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care
Topol, Eric J., 1954-2013
Book
A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to. save lives.
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Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Imprint:
New York : Basic Books, 2013.
Collation:
xi, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 2012.With a New Postscript by the Author -- cover.Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-301) and index.
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 technology -- The convergence of human data capture -- Doctors with plasticity? -- Rebooting the life science industry -- Homo Digitus and the individual.
ISBN:
9780465061839 (pbk)
Dewey class:
610.285
LC class:
R858
Language:
English
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BRN:
1750601