If you have a dog in the digital health fight or you spend any time thinking about the future of health care, drop what you’re doing and read The Topol Review - Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future. Over the past year a cross-disciplinary team of experts in and outside of the NHS convened to review the current state of medicine and ... Continue Reading about The Topol Review – Unprecedented Vision of Medicine’s Future
The Danger of What Doctors Were Trained to Do
I hear this a lot from young and mid-career physicians in the face of new information, “But I was trained to...” 'I was trained’ suggests knowledge and standards are static. The way things were done is the way things are done. It fuels the myth that our mentors could do no wrong and they knew everything. 'I was trained’ is a dangerous way to think. It closes us ... Continue Reading about The Danger of What Doctors Were Trained to Do
npj Digital Medicine – Moving Digital Health from Hype to Evidence
Nature Research has teamed up with the Scripps Translational Institute to launch a new journal focused on digital medicine. The journal, npj Digital Medicine is under the Nature Partner Journal Series and the editorial tutelage of Dr. Eric Topol, professor of genomics and founder of the STSI and Dr. Steven Steinhubl, director of digital medicine at Scripps ... Continue Reading about npj Digital Medicine – Moving Digital Health from Hype to Evidence
Digital Health and the AMA Snake Oil
This week, James Madara, CEO of the AMA loosely referenced digital health technology as snake oil. He went one further suggesting it was the AMA that was going to save us from the looming threat of 21st century progress. It’s worth a read but for all the wrong reasons. The comments showcase the Shirky Principle: institutions will work to preserve the problem to ... Continue Reading about Digital Health and the AMA Snake Oil
6 Digital Health Power Curators
Increasingly, my life is about finding signal. Noise grows by the day. So who I listen to has become important. Tuning for value has become a new preoccupation. So I thought I'd share a few of the people who do a brilliant job creating a clean, valuable signal for me. This is not a 'best of' list, but rather a sampling of individuals who do a great job of ... Continue Reading about 6 Digital Health Power Curators
The Creative Destruction of Medicine Reviews
If you haven’t read the Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol you need to take a peek. As I mentioned in my initial thoughts here on this blog, I consider this one of the most important books of our generation. Since its release in late January, The Creative Destruction of Medicine has enjoyed some brilliant reviews. I’m launching this post as a dynamic, ... Continue Reading about The Creative Destruction of Medicine Reviews