Digitizing the human being
Wireless sensors, genome sequencing, imaging, and information technology converge to render each person as continuous data. The individual becomes measurable in real time.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine
6 ideas
Medicine is being democratized
Smartphones and consumer devices move diagnostics from the clinic to the patient. Authority shifts from the doctor toward the informed individual.
Super-convergence of disruptive technologies
Genomics, digital devices, connectivity, and social networks combine rather than acting alone. Their overlap is what topples the entrenched model.
Population averages fail individuals
Treatments designed for the average patient misfire on real people. Molecular and genetic signatures enable therapy tailored to one person.
Creative destruction applied to healthcare
Topol borrows Schumpeter to argue that disruption will dismantle paternalistic, episodic medicine. The old order must be broken for a better one to form.
Continuous monitoring replaces episodic care
Remote sensing of glucose, heart rhythm, and vitals catches disease before crisis. Care becomes constant rather than confined to visits.