The creative destruction of medicine : how the digital revolution will create better health care / Eric Topol.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2012Description: xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780465025503 (hbk.); 0465025501 (hbk.)Subject(s): Medical informatics | Information resources management | Medical Informatics Applications | Biomedical Technology | Delivery of Health Care -- trends | Diffusion of Innovation | Health Communication | Internet | Medicine -- Information resources | Information resources management | მედიცინა | ინფორმატიკა | სამედიცინო ინფორმატიკა | ბიოსამედიცინო ტექნოლოგიები | სამედიცინო რესურსების გამოყენება | სამედიცინო ინფორმაციის მართვაDDC classification: 610.285 LOC classification: R858 | .T655 2012| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Setting the foundation. 1. The digital landscape : cultivating a data-driven, participatory culture -- 2. The orientation of medicine today : population versus individual -- 3. To what extent are consumers empowered? : clicks and tricks -- Part II. Capturing the data. 4. Physiology : wireless sensors -- 5. Biology : sequencing the genome -- 6. Anatomy : from imaging to printing organs -- 7. Electronic health records and health information technology -- 8. The convergence of human data capture -- Part III. The impact of homo digitus. 9. Doctors with plasticity? -- 10. Rebooting the life science industry -- 11. Homo digitus and the individual.
A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.
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