Knowledge@Wharton Podcast -

C. William Hanson, III, author of 'Smart Medicine:  How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care', director, surgical intensive care, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, interviews Eric Topol, author of 'The Creative Destruction of Medicine:  How the Digital Revolution will Create Better Health Care' and also cardiologist, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and co-founder of the West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, California:  Access the interview here.

Trish's Comment:  The podcast is a great opportunity to hear Hanson and Topol, both greatly experienced doctors with a common vision of the future of medicine, discuss and review

Topol's latest book, 'The Creative Destruction of  Medicine:  How the Digital Revolution will create Better Health Care', published on February 12th of this year.Dr. Topol explains in his book how medicine works today, where treatments are based on statistics and probabilities, not the individual.  Digital medicine, which would be possible today if it were not for the medical community's profound resistance, has the power to change this through the use of wireless sensors, genomics, imaging and electronic health records.  

For the first time we can capture all the relevant information from each person to enable precision therapy.  In Dr. Topol's words: 'This is a new era of medicine, in which each individual can be near fully defined at the individual level, instead of how we practice medicine, in which each individual can be near fully defined at the individual level, instead of how we practice medicine at a population level, with mass screening policies for such conditions as breast or prostate cancer and use of the same medication and dosage for a diagnosis rather than for a patient.'Listening to the interview will give you a taste for Dr. Topol's views and proposals and, if you are like me, it will leave you wanting to learn more!