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

  • Topol, Eric J., 1954-
Date:
[2012], ©2012
  • Books

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Description

A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.

Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    W26.5 2012T67c
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780465025503
  • 0465025501
  • 9780465029341
  • 0465029345