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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Smartphones broaden access to medical knowledge and will soon give patients far greater power to self-diagnose accurately, independently.
Chapter 3: Technology will transfer power from doctors to patients.
Chapter 4: Technology will transform our current medical infrastructure.
Chapter 5: We will soon be able to build a complex map of everyone’s medical information.
Chapter 6: A human GIS and access to big data will radically improve health care.
Chapter 7: Big data may even enable us to predict common diseases.
Chapter 8: Detailed medical data is risky if it falls into the wrong hands.
Description
The medical world is on the brink of a revolution thanks to new and future technology like Big Data health maps and bacteria scanners that can attach to smartphones. Power is shifting from the doctor to the patient, and self-treatment and self-diagnoses are becoming unprecedentedly powerful. The Patient Will See You Now (2015) outlines these changes and what they mean for both you and the healthcare world.
Who Should Listen
- Medical students
- People who suffer from a chronic disease
- Anyone curious about the future of medicine