Quotes from Eric Topol

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

It's hard for most of us to accept that we are nine parts microbe and only one part human, at least as far as a count of our cells goes.

Eventually, each individual will not only own their data, but it will be secured in a personal cloud or system, with the owner granting rights for others to access. Now that's a flip.

As we reviewed in Chapter 7, we will get away from keyboards in the office, also known as "death by a thousand clicks," and replace them with computer processing of natural language into notes.98—100

the average person is projected to have between six and seven connected devices by 2020.

It may just mean that the best way to cut the ever-increasing costs of health care around the world will be to provide cheap smartphones with Internet service to those who otherwise could not afford to buy them.

this really took off in 20116—11 with a Stanford University artificial intelligence class: 160,000 people signed up from 195 countries after one public announcement and 23,000 finished the course.

retrospective studies are well suited for generating a hypothesis, then the hypothesis can be tested prospectively and supported, especially when independently replicated.

The staff of such a monitoring center could represent the future "hospitalist"—not likely to be called a "home-ist"—a physician particularly trained and adept at the interface of machines and people. You might describe them as geeks with compassion, not necessarily an oxymoron.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

This brings home the saying and mantra for the future—"Nothing about me without me"—which should and will undeniably apply to individuals when they assume the role of IAPs.38