Mobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies that can provide wireless, personalized health care at lower cost, the medical community has resisted change. In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Eric Topol—one of the nation’s top physicians—calls for consumer activism to demand innovation and the democratization of medical care. The Creative Destruction of Medicine is the definitive account of the coming disruption of medicine, written by the field’s leading voice.
Dr. Eric Topol’s book is an excellent review of what the promise of technology holds for the US Healthcare system. His background as a geneticist and a cardiologist as well as a highly regarded research scientist informs this book with the promise of the future, and it is the near future at that. Not something decades away. The advent of the empowered patient (by technology as close as their cell phone) extends the opportunity and methodology for significant reductions in the cost of health care for us all—without a reduction in quality. For instance, cell phones with a “lab on a chip” enabling individuals to substantially reduce the cost and compliance of monitoring one’s blood work for glucose, cholesterol, etc. while empowering the patient to be more aware and in control.
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His review of genetics was a little dense, but as readers we must all bear in mind how difficult it is to condense such a complex subject into a chapter of one book providing enough information for the lay person to become excited about the possibilities in front of us without speaking totally over our heads. The promise of pharmacogenomics is here today. Enabling an oncologist to test a cancer tumor for genetic markers that indicate which of several chemotherapy drugs would be most efficacious for a particular patient. The “wrinkle” in the system is that insurance company awareness and subsequent payments are running behind the speeding train of “Star Trek” medicine. I do believe we will as a society work this out.
As a health care professional, I highly recommend this book for nurses, physicians, administrators as well as interested lay people. There are so many cost pressures coming with health care reform, it is easy to get caught up in thinking that quality of care is doomed to decline. This book opened my eyes to the possibilities in front of us today and many hopes in front of us within the next 5 years. It truly lifted my spirits to read it.
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Details For The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
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) - Language: English
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition, Revised and Expanded edition (August 13, 2013)
- ISBN-10: 0465061834
- ISBN-13: 978-0465061839
- Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
About the Author
Eric J. Topol, M.D., is the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and co-founder and vice-chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, California. He is a practicing cardiologist at the Scripps Clinic and a professor of genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. One of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine, Topol was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and has led many of the trials that have shaped contemporary treatment for heart disease.
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