Stethoscopes Disappears

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The stethoscope disappears.b If you can find cancer cells on your mobile phone or predict my heart attack soonIn this book, the author argues that the digital revolution, including mobile technology, changes the paradigm of medicine, and that medical care is restructured through creative destruction. It looks at how health information can be integrated with IT technologies and shows how human digitization will affect doctors, hospitals, life sciences companies, regulators, and individuals lives. It also discusses how to deal with issues such as the safety and privacy of digitized medical information.A portable ultrasound measuring instrument replaces the stethoscope. The stethoscope was first made in 1816 by Rene Enenique. Two hundred years after it was made, the stethoscope became a symbol of medicine. The author has been out of the stethoscope for more than two years to hear his heart rate. How can I hear the heart of the patient? I have a high-resolution portable ultrasound measuring instrument that can take an electrocardiogram and see the heart. Why do I have to hear heart sounds? In this book, Eric Topol, one of the greatest names in the United States and leader of the digital medical revolution, argues that radical innovations and democratization of medicine are at hand, . The biggest change in medical history is that our consumers can advance. This book tells us all the related problems and their solutions.

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Published July 10, 2012