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Sign Up. Like this document? Why not share! Embed Size px. Start on. Show related SlideShares at end. WordPress Shortcode. Next SlideShares. Our clients bring the context of personal experience with themselves or in my case their pet to the table, and I can bring the broader context of medical knowledge and experience to the table. Even in medicine it is vital that no medical professional is an island, patients should feel as the book suggests like they have a medical team who can work with them and work together to help see the whole picture and prevent medical errors.
To have patients out there on their own making their own medical decisions, when even doctors should likely be making medical decisions in teams is worrisome.
I do agree that overall more access to our own medical records and the ability to potentially do something with them would give us a reason to improve our medical literacy. That ultimately should be good for everyone. I agree that challenging established medical theory can sometimes be a good thing look at the early days of variolation, many doctors thought it was a bad idea , but it can be hard to know when it will be productive and when it will be harmful snake oil medicines.
Even if patients don't feel anxious, confused or distressed by their medical information or making choices, they might still be lead down dangerous paths. Finding out what is genuinely worthwhile and what is exploitive is hard enough Do You Believe in Magic? Overall a book based on interesting trends and thought provoking that I would have loved to see put together more concisely and with a bit more balance. Sep 15, James rated it it was amazing. Great insight into what we as patients should be doing to better our outcomes.
Fantastic insight into millisieverts and how to measure your cancer causing risks see below. The remote monitoring, the destruction of the need for more hospital beds and how to reduce costs were some good arguments presented. Lab on a chip or in the blood are excellent concepts. Also like the ways being presented to monitor if patients are taking their meds.
I had no clue what these were nor how they had any impact on an individual. It's amazing that the simple things we have done in life, the scans, the xrays, etc etc etc can lead to cancer. It's also make you think that you should challenge your doctor to look for alternate ways to examine, or for scans with less millisieverts if you want to lessen your chance of cancer.
Summarizing what I heard: You have a smaller chance of getting cancer if you keep your millisieverts exposure under Let's say you go for a nuclear test that's 40 ; how about a x-rays, that's a piece.
Now think instead of the x-ray, you ask for an ultrasound; that saves you millisieverts towards your This doesn't mean everyone keeping their score under won't get cancer, but it's in interesting cause to at least be aware of. Jan 01, Trey Malone rated it it was ok. My criticisms of the book is less about content and more about tone. Topol frames his book as an attack on the "paternalist" "elites" of medicine, but I think his criticisms are somewhat misguided.
Instead of convincing me that doctors are elitist to a fault, Topol's content would made a more convincing case for optimism in the future of medicine. It seems to me that the first few chapters should have been restructured as an optimistic look at patient-based solutions to health issues via individ My criticisms of the book is less about content and more about tone.
It seems to me that the first few chapters should have been restructured as an optimistic look at patient-based solutions to health issues via individualized technology. From that position, he could have easily made a compelling case for the benefits of a minimalist FDA. Instead, he sets the book up to be easily refuted by pointing out the systemic irrationality of American patients i.
Aug 08, Daniel rated it it was amazing. This ground breaking book opens my eyes to the latest technological advances in the field of medicine, and I'm a doctor It's amazing and surely patient empowerment emancipation is the word the author used is already happening and soon the relationship between doctors and patients will be changed forever. The only thing I don't agree is that the author thinks that hospitals will disappear, replaced by home monitoring But who is going to help the patient if things happen?
Nonetheless this This ground breaking book opens my eyes to the latest technological advances in the field of medicine, and I'm a doctor Nonetheless this is a great book! May 02, Daniel Barenboim rated it it was ok Shelves: misc. This book is basically a treatise on how healthcare should be improved and some of the ways that people have accomplished more by learning about health themselves instead of trusting their doctor.
While I wholeheartedly agree with what this book says and have already put these principles into effect before reading it, I feel as though it is nothing more than a teaser. If we can not change the system, what's the use in talking about all of it's defects?
I can only sit here and ponder what to do w This book is basically a treatise on how healthcare should be improved and some of the ways that people have accomplished more by learning about health themselves instead of trusting their doctor. I can only sit here and ponder what to do with this knowledge.
Aug 23, Stephanie Weaver rated it liked it. The overall content and focus of this book is terrific: empowering patients to own their own medical data, and painting a picture of both the positives and negatives of the impact of the Internet of Things on medicine.
It's a dense read, and it wasn't clear to me who the audience was. It's too detailed and high-level for the average patient, and doesn't have a clear enough call to action for physicians or legislators, which is why I gave it 3 stars. Aug 02, Hakan Jackson rated it really liked it.
From the title you'd think this book was all about how medicine will be practiced in the future. However, the book also delves into the past and how medicine got to where it is today. If you've ever experienced frustration with the medical system and are curious on how it'll change. This book is for you. Sep 21, Jeff LeBrun rated it did not like it Shelves: science.
This is basically a list of all the technological stuff that Topol thinks is cool. It reads a bit like an infomercial without much original or creative thought by the author. Some weird tangents where he describes something completely unrelated, like the development of the printing press, pad it up to novel-length. I was really looking forward to reading this book as I liked the premise.
The first couple of chapters were very interesting and I learned a lot. However, the author should have stopped while he was ahead. From Chapter 9 on, the book seems to lose focus and becomes more about what the author knows than what the patient may want to hear or read.
Oct 31, Blake Charlton rated it liked it. I was really excited to read the book but it is very boring and it feels like the author made a huge effort to increase the contents in details without any meaning.
I read around pages and could not continue! Oct 18, Gianluca Truda rated it liked it. Topol presents his views on how medicine can and should be revolutionised through digitisation, democratisation, and decentralisation. As a Quantified-Self enthusiast and often-frustrated patient, I can get behind a lot of what he advocates for here—an end to medical paternalism, accessible data, patient autonomy, and the general increase in efficiency that digitisation can provide.
But whilst Topol makes a good case, he tends to over-advocate for his positions and the book does not adequately Topol presents his views on how medicine can and should be revolutionised through digitisation, democratisation, and decentralisation. But whilst Topol makes a good case, he tends to over-advocate for his positions and the book does not adequately represent much of the nuance in the issues. His cheerleading aside, Topol does perform much useful meta-analysis of the literature on digital medicine, next-generation testing, etc.
Unfortunately, the book has a lot of "fluff" and I found myself racing through much of it at 2x speed. Some of the anecdotes and case studies were really interesting and put me onto new ideas but, for the most part, the book could have made its points in the length of a long blog post. Topol highlights the history behind the paternalistic attitude of modern medical practice and presents his ideas for a future of patient-centred care.
After all, as he says, nobody is more invested in your health than you are. He implies that this will produce better risk assessment—because doctors tend to fear retribution for doing too little, but patients would be better able to evaluate the tradeoffs. But this is one of many examples from the book where I felt like he overestimates the understanding and critical thinking of many patients. He also advocates for more accessible and shareable health data which I would personally stand behind and the value of peer-to-peer medicine, such as online communities where people with similar conditions compare notes and help find solutions.
He argues that democratising medicine will realise these ideals, as well as ushering in improvements from a wider domain of innovative minds. Overall, I like many of the ideas Topol presents in this book and I really do enjoy the utopian vision he paints for the future of medicine. And the literature review has its merits too. The problem with the book, then, is that it flutters between a manifesto and a review article, and in so doing dilutes the impact of either.
It was certainly a worthwhile read for me, but I wouldn't recommend it to most other readers. This is exacerbated by the fact that the book is now around six years old, which is more than enough for much of the information in this domain to be invalid or overblown.
No doubt, this is why he wrote a follow-up. Sep 11, Brent Thomas rated it liked it. Through Topol's eyes, we're exposed to the possibilities the changing technological landscape might have to offer the field of medicine. With the widespread access to cell phones, fitness wearables, the ever-expanding volumes of stored personal health data through those devices and others , and the growing power of data analytics, what might their impact be in the evolution of modern medicine?
This disparity can only be addressed through empowering patients to better care for themselves and giving providers better tools to care for their patients. Both of those solutions will require the development and application of novel technologies. In Krisa Tailor's book The Patient Revolution, a blueprint is articulated for how this could be achieved, culminating in a vision for a learning health system within 10 years. Amazon unfortunately knows more about our patients than we do.
The prescriptive analytics she describes will allow health care providers to use big data to optimize interventions at the level of the individual patient. The use of analytics will allow providers to improve quality, shape care coordination, and contain costs. Advanced analytics will lead to personalized care and ultimately empowered patients!
For me, health care represents a unique economy—one focused on technology, but requiring a deep understanding of humanity. Tailor begins the exploration of how we provide care via the concepts of design thinking, asking how we might redesign care with an eye toward changing the experience. She does an excellent job deconstructing this from the patient experience. I look forward to a hopeful follow-up directed at changing the provider culture.
Krisa Tailor ties together—in a comprehensive, unique way—the worlds of health care administration, clinical practice, design thinking, and business strategy and innovation. This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy Jim Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.
Hello, Startup is a practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams. Although at its core, this is a book for programmers, by programmers, only Part II Technologies is significantly technical, while the rest should be accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Powerful new approaches and advances in medical systems drive increasingly high expectations for healthcare providers internationally. This book covers the need for responsible innovation in this area, exploring the issues of implementation as well as potential negative consequences to ensure digital healthcare delivers for the benefit of all stakeholders.
This 5th edition of this essential textbook continues to meet the growing demand of practitioners, researchers, educators, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in biomedical informatics and the underlying scientific issues that sit at the intersection of biomedical science, patient care, public health and information technology IT. Emphasizing the conceptual basis of the field rather than technical details, it provides the tools for study required for readers to comprehend, assess, and utilize biomedical informatics and health IT.
It focuses on practical examples, a guide to additional literature, chapter summaries and a comprehensive glossary with concise definitions of recurring terms for self-study or classroom use. Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine reflects the remarkable changes in both computing and health care that continue to occur and the exploding interest in the role that IT must play in care coordination and the melding of genomics with innovations in clinical practice and treatment.
New and heavily revised chapters have been introduced on human-computer interaction, mHealth, personal health informatics and precision medicine, while the structure of the other chapters has undergone extensive revisions to reflect the developments in the area. The organization and philosophy remain unchanged, focusing on the science of information and knowledge management, and the role of computers and communications in modern biomedical research, health and health care.
In the United States today, several hundred thousand patients die in hospitals each year because of errors in medical treatment-the nation's third leading cause of death. The legal mechanism designed to deal with this epidemic of injury and death is the medical malpractice system. It has failed to stem the tide of iatrogenic harm.
Among the reasons are the costliness of the malpractice system, its availability to only a minuscule percentage of those harmed, and decades of "tort reform" efforts that have effectively extinguished the system for all but the most egregious claims. Its proposed solution-a set of reporting systems to document problems and generate data on which solutions might be based-has been a failure.
The time has come for a fresh look at what the law might do to contribute to patient safety. To begin a conversation about legal innovations designed to spur healthcare system improvements directed at reducing harmful medical errors, this book explores a number of possible steps, including: Well-designed economic incentives to stimulate greater investment in safety. Promotion of systems approaches to safer delivery of care.
Government regulation and surveillance in especially risky treatment contexts. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a paternalistic medical regime in which "the doctor knows best. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. In spite of these benefits, the path forward will be complicated: some in the medical establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine will raise serious issues surrounding privacy.
Nevertheless, the result--better, cheaper, and more humane health care for all--will be worth it. The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us.
With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic medical system.
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