We live in an exciting age where converging technologies
like personal genomics, artificial intelligence and mobile has become faster
and smarter and at greatly reduced costs. We now have tools at our disposal
when confronted with unmet needs and challenges like primary care shortage that
call for novel, convergent and disruptive solutions.
A “massive convergence” of smartphone technology, computing
power, and genetics is rapidly transforming medical practice, Eric Topol, MD,
Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla,
California, told HIMSS members during a seminar. In 2012, Modern Healthcare ranked Topol as the most influential physician executive in the United States.
In his book The Creative Destruction of Medicine Eric Topol
discusses the many structural issues in the healthcare system and how
technology is “rebooting” the system. With personal technology doctors can see
a continuously updated picture of each patient and treat them individually.
This is possible with the powerful tools now available to sequence one’s genome
and predict the effects of drugs. In his best-selling book he calls for a
"jailbreak" from the ideas of the past. It is a riveting book that
helps us think of solutions in novel ways.
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