Quotes from Eric Topol

Nick Dawson, a leader of the Society of Participatory Medicine, uses Evernote as his electronic medical record, pulling in data from sensors and sharing with providers or family members.64

The greatest opportunity offered by AI is not reducing errors or workloads, or even curing cancer: it is the opportunity to restore the precious and time-honored connection and trust—the human touch—between patients and doctors. Not only would we have more time to come together, enabling far deeper communication and compassion, but also we would be able to revamp how we select and train doctors.

there are over six thousand prescription drugs, but we only have pharmacogenomic information for just over one hundred

the sugar industry has promoted the idea that a calorie is a calorie, and that eating a calorie's worth of sweets is no more likely to make someone obese than any other food.

Indeed, the data might even preempt the need for a "visit," and when they do prove necessary, they will no longer be visits or appointments but informative, data-driven discussions. There

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98–100

the average person is projected to have between six and seven connected devices by 2020.

This study demonstrates that patients who view their lab test results online overwhelmingly react with positive rather than negative emotions."12

Statins, particularly potent ones, induce diabetes in at least 1 of 200 individuals treated.

It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.

Imaging via a pocket ultrasound device decidedly transcends the antique stethoscope from 1816, regarded as the icon of medicine.

Similarly, the HealthMap algorithm, which scours tens of thousands of social networks and news media, was capable of predicting the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa nine days before the World Health Organization.21b

Sharing, transparency, and openness are all now fast-moving trends in medicine that have been potentiated by the digital infrastructure.

Presently, there are just over one hundred medications that the Food and Drug Administration labels as having an important, known DNA interaction.42

a recent survey of sixty highly ranked United States hospitals asked their employees whether they'd feel comfortable receiving medical care in the unit in which they work. The response at more than half the hospitals was a resounding "No!

second major driver of open knowledge has emerged. These are MOOCs (massive open online courses), which broadcast lectures to tens of thousands of people who have an Internet connection and want to sign up.

this really took off in 20116–11 with a Stanford University artificial intelligence class: 160,000 people signed up from 195 countries after one public announcement and 23,000 finished the course.

an interconnected, instantaneous, molecule-to-manufacturer managed care system can tap science and save money.

The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is to provide composite, panoramic views of individuals' medical data; to improve decision making; to avoid errors such as misdiagnosis and unnecessary procedures; to help in the ordering and interpretation of appropriate tests; and to recommend treatment.

retrospective studies are well suited for generating a hypothesis, then the hypothesis can be tested prospectively and supported, especially when independently replicated.

The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future "hospitalist"—not likely to be called a "home-ist"—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.

medical harm as one of the top three killers in the United States.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

The two primary factors in these deaths are nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections11 and medical errors.