The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care - Hardcover

Eric J. Topol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465025501 ISBN 13: 9780465025503

Publisher: Basic Books, 2012

Synopsis

A medical trailbrazer ushers in the era of Medicine 2.0. Modern medicine is designed for groups. The interactions of drugs, patients and diseases are unpredictable - clinical trials are population based and do not account for personal idiosyncracies, much less medical histories. In "The Creative Destruction of Medicine", pioneering geneticist and cardiologist Eric Topol introduces a radical new approach - by bringing the era of big data to the clinic, laboratory, and hospital. With personal technology, doctors can see a full, continuously updated picture of each patient and treat each individually. Powerful new tools can sequence one's genome to predict the effects of any drugs, and improved imaging and printing technology are beginning to enable us to print organs on demand. Topol offers a glimpse of the medicine of the future - one he is deeply involved in shaping.

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Review:

As an introduction for the lay reader to the sophisticated digital technology now being applied to medical care, and as an explanation of the rapidly advancing science of medical genetics and the new revelations from the sequencing of the human genome, Topol's book is a tour de force. --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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""What happens when you combine cellular phone technology with the cellular aberrations in disease? Or create a bridge between the digital revolution with the medical revolution? How will minute biological sensors alter the way we treat lethal illnesses, such as heart attacks or cancer? This marvelous book by Eric Topol, a leading cardiologist, gene hunter and medical thinker, answers not just these questions, but many many more. Topol's analysis draws us to the very frontlines of medicine, and leaves us with a view of a landscape that is both foreign and daunting. He manages to recount this story in simple, lucid language--resulting in an enthralling and important book."
--Atul Gawande, M.D., author of The Checklist Manifesto

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A must-read that lays out a road map for how new technologies in genomics, information technology, and mobile medicine may completely change the way we treat and prevent illness.... Highly recommended', Forbes

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0465025501
• ISBN 13: 9780465025503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320