Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital World

EconTalk

• Episode: Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital World
• Website: EconTalk
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• Duration: 01:07:05
• Published: 2015-05-11 08:30

We're in the middle of a healthcare revolution but it's about more than marvelous life-saving and life-enhancing apps on our smartphone. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and author of The Patient Will See You Now argues that the digital revolution will give us more control of our health information and data. More powerful patients will transform the doctor-patient interaction. Topol talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book giving us a glimpse of the changes coming to medicine from the digital revolution.