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The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care /

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Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Topol, Eric J., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Medical informatics.
Information resources management.
Medical Informatics Applications.
Biomedical Technology.
Delivery of Health Care > trends.
Health Communication.
Diffusion of Innovation.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of 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 systems
  • The convergence of human data capture
  • Doctors with plasticity?
  • The rebooted life science industry
  • The individual.