With the Obamacare rollout of the health insurance exchanges and its leadup, healthcare has certainly […]
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Healthcare’s most memorable TV moments in 2013
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Eric Topol’s role as AT&T Chief Medical Advisor adds rock star luster to digital health brand
Dr. Eric Topol, the cardiologist and author who has built a reputation as an advocate […]
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Patients, physicians narrowing gap on consumer-driven care
Patients and consumers in healthcare are more inclined to incorporate new technologies into the delivery […]
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Is technology ‘dehumanizing’ medicine? Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Verghese discuss
Dr. Eric Topol, the well-known editor-in-chief of Medscape and expert on genomics and digital health, […]
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Eric Topol calls out 6 startups that are giving healthcare power to the people
#Doctors being squeezed by many new trends in #healthcare & #tech. Via @EricTopol@NYeHealth#DHC14pic.twitter.com/5EMQKFPMlZ — Wen […]
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Topol and San Diego coroner turn to genetics to understand sudden, unexplained death
Despite all our tricks of medical deduction, sometimes a death can just be left unexplained: […]
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Topol: What would a medical smartphone look like?
My medical smartphone #PWSYN inspired by @xkcdComicpic.twitter.com/pwVz22C1Ai — Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 27, 2014 […]
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Providers still lagging in patient engagement
Healthcare organizations and providers are still largely confused, or at least slow, when it comes […]
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5 powerful speeches that changed medicine for the better
The right talks at the right time by the right people. Did you hear them? And did you really listen?
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Topol: Clinical trials offer exciting examples of convergence of digital health and drug development
Dr. Eric Topol said, “When I wrote ‘Creative Destruction of Medicine’ four years ago there was zero convergence…Now there are so many examples.”
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Eric Topol: Frustrated that doctors are slow to adopt pharmacogenomics
“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.”
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This week on MedHeads: News from #BIO2015 and the Health Innovation Summit
On MedHeads this week, Meghana Keshavan and Neil Versel join Stephanie Baum to discuss important news from the BIO and Health Innovations conferences.
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Precision Medicine: 8 must-follow Twitter users (updated)
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.
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Is your chemotherapy working? This simple test could tell you
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.
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Topol: Apple Watch helps colleague’s patient self-diagnose heart condition
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.
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Eric Topol wears genetic data on his sleeve to promote carrier screening
Eric Topol proves the relevance of his “prewomb to tomb” mantra on individualized medicine by sharing his own genetic information – he’s a carrier for two rare diseases. Topol spoke with MedCity News to advocate carrier screening for prospective parents.
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MD Connect lists physicians on Twitter; Here are some more in health IT
If you are into health IT and digital health, you should follow these physicians on Twitter.
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Topol talks digital health with CNBC’s Jim Cramer (video)
Cramer is a fan of Topol’s current book, “The Patient Will See You Now.”
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‘Moneyball’ meets medicine: DePodesta joins Topol at Scripps
After reading Dr. Eric Topol’s latest book, New York Mets executive Paul DePodesta was struck by the parallels between baseball and medicine when it comes to crunching data.
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Life Science Limericks: 2015 Edition
Up next: Digital health ditties? Biotech ballads? Payer/provider paeans?
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Health data should belong to patients, Topol argues
What constitutes health data is no longer so easily defined. Neither is how the information is used.
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Topol calls patient data ownership a future civil right
“I don’t see Epic, Allscripts or Cerner in existence in another decade,” Topol said.
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What Mark Zuckerberg told Dr. Eric Topol about his interest in healthcare
Dr. Eric Topol, the digital health evangelist and cardiologist at Scripps, offers a tantalizing look into what the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and medical philanthropist, cares about in healthcare.
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This week in patient engagement: Topol fights pain, a nurse learns empathy
Evidence-based medicine didn’t work for Dr. Eric Topol when he had complications after a knee replacement, so he started experimenting. Meanwhile, an oncology nurse apologized to her patients for not understanding their situation until she got cancer herself.
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HealthSparq seeks ‘idiotic’ stories with #WhatTheHealthCare campaign
The campaign’s business objective is to put HealthSparq at the forefront of the patient engagement discussion and provide “a brand lift,” said Burt Rosen, vice president and chief marketing officer for the company.
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Living in the moment: Point-of-care market tops $18B
The point-of-care transformation is well underway as healthcare and tech companies dive into a market now worth over $18 billion a year.
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Insights and recommendations from Eric Topol’s NHS report
Topol’s report posits a more individualized, patient-centered system driven by a population empowered by personal genomic and health information.
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Dr. Eric Topol on finding the way back from the “abject failure” of EHR implementation
During a presentation at Nvidia’s GTC 2019 Conference in San Jose, Topol sketched out a vision of a world where this multi-modal data is collected and assessed from “the pre-womb to the tomb” and run through clinically validated algorithms that can reveal personalized insights and aid in more accurate diagnoses.
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NHS invests $300M in the development of new AI capabilities
The National AI lab is meant to support clinicians in efforts to estimate future needs of healthcare resources, identify the best sites of care for patients and help automate routine and administrative tasks to increase system efficiency.
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Digital health, digital therapeutics, digital medicines – what’s in a name?
Digital health companies faced bad news going into 2020, from job cuts to dissolving pharma partnerships. But these struggles are part of an industry that is finding its identity in a crowded healthcare market.
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