HFMA June 27, 2016
Eric Topol, MD

The biggest shakeup in the history of medicine is underway.

 

New technology and access to genetic data are opening the doors to all kinds of medical advances–but that’s not the shakeup Eric Topol, MD, talked about in his keynote address Monday at ANI: the 2016 HFMA National Institute.

While these innovations are certainly aiding and supporting a revolution in the practice of medicine, the transformation Topol described was how patients were gaining the ability to take control of their own care—including conducting their own diagnosis and developing their own course of treatment.

“We are on a course of true democratization of medical science,” Topol said. However, many obstacles remain, such as allowing individual patients unfettered access to and ownership...

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