Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health in San Diego and director of the Scripps Translational Research Institute, is creating yet another buzz on Twitter with a post about patient-generated data from an Apple Watch.
It takes several months and several tests to determine whether chemotherapy is working. San Diego startup Biological Dynamics just raised $22.8 million for its simple, inexpensive blood test that can tell whether a patient is responding to a cancer treatment.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
While it's challenging to keep up to date with all the news in precision medicine, Twitter's a good place to get a constant stream of good information - if you know where to look. These Twitter users know a thing or two about precision medicine.
On MedHeads this week, Meghana Keshavan and Neil Versel join Stephanie Baum to discuss important news from the BIO and Health Innovations conferences.
"We basically have a medical community that doesn't embrace the use of genomics," Dr. Eric Topol said. "Often times these days, it's the patients that are clamoring."
Dr. Eric Topol said, "When I wrote 'Creative Destruction of Medicine' four years ago there was zero convergence...Now there are so many examples."
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The right talks at the right time by the right people. Did you hear them? And did you really listen?
Healthcare organizations and providers are still largely confused, or at least slow, when it comes to effective patient portals and other technologies that may help spur better patient engagement, according to a recent report from Chilmark Research. “…We found a marketplace long on potential, but short on results to date,” lead author Naveen Rao wrote […]
My medical smartphone #PWSYN inspired by @xkcdComicpic.twitter.com/pwVz22C1Ai — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 27, 2014 Dr. Eric Topol recently unveiled what his “medical smartphone” would include, just ahead of his forthcoming book “The Patient Will See You Now.” It includes all the bells and whistles, of course — artificial intelligence, imaging, price transparency tools, and […]
Despite all our tricks of medical deduction, sometimes a death can just be left unexplained: No heart attack, no stroke, no slip of a cyanide pill…The post-mortem yields nothing, and families are left without closure. Researchers over at Scripps Translational Science Institute in San Diego, led by renowned cardiologist and geneticist Eric Topol, have begun a study to help families […]
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#Doctors being squeezed by many new trends in #healthcare & #tech. Via @EricTopol@NYeHealth#DHC14pic.twitter.com/5EMQKFPMlZ — Wen Dombrowski MD (@HealthcareWen) November 17, 2014 Eric Topol, the director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California, shared some more details of his vision of democratized healthcare at the New York Digital Health Conference this week. In a […]
Dr. Eric Topol, the well-known editor-in-chief of Medscape and expert on genomics and digital health, recently conducted an interview with physician-turned author Dr. Abraham Verghese, who is also a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Among other topics, the two physician touch on some themes that are central to the evolving landscape of healthcare, and […]
Patients and consumers in healthcare are more inclined to incorporate new technologies into the delivery system than the physicians who administer most of the care, but the gap between the two is shrinking as more physicians embrace the consumer-driven model. Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Health, giving the keynote at this year’s Health 2.0 Conference […]
Dr. Eric Topol, the cardiologist and author who has built a reputation as an advocate for disruption in healthcare, is going to advise AT&T’s digital health division on its mobile health strategy. The telecommunications company has been adding mobile health tools as part of the AT&T ForHealth unit. Topol’s role won’t hurt in raising the […]
With the Obamacare rollout of the health insurance exchanges and its leadup, healthcare has certainly held the media’s eye in 2013 more than usual. But most of healthcare’s best TV moments this year were unpredictable. One Texas state senator who literally took a stand shaped policy. A famous doctor made a shocking reversal. An ad […]