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A digital examination of medicine

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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare

  • Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2012 320 pp., hardcover, $56.99 ISBN 0465025501 | ISBN: 0-465-02550-1

As a professor of cardiology, Eric Topol is well positioned to recalibrate beliefs about the current performance of the healthcare system. Indeed, the successive '-omic' revolutions are revealing that common medical presentations are actually families of disease with distinct underlying biologies that each imply a very different prognosis and treatment. Yet the routines of the ward today depart little from those at the beginning of the last century, continuing to depend on clinical symptoms and signs documented in handwritten notes.

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  1. Hadrian A.L. Green is in Emerging Markets Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, UK.,

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