A professor of medicine reveals how such technologies as wireless Internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.
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Topol (cardiologist & professor of genomics, Scripps College) here argues that the digital revolution can and must revolutionize medicine in ways that have not yet been fully explored. The first section of the book lays out evidence that the practice of medicine is ossified and inefficient in the context of available technology. The second section explains the specific technologies--wireless sensing, genomics, detail imaging and 3D printing, and electronic data storage--that Topol believes can be utilized to tremendous beneficial effect. In the last section, a vision of the future of digitized human beings and healthcare is presented, along with caveats and invitations to consider the potential downsides. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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