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With the smartphone revolution, an increasingly powerful new set of
tools—from attachments that can diagnose an ear infection or track heart
rhythms to an app that can monitor mental health—can reduce our use of
doctors, cut costs, speed up the pace of care and give more power to
patients. Digital avatars won’t replace physicians: You will still be
seeing doctors, but the relationship will ultimately be radically
altered.
The key to better health care may already be in your pocket... and it's not your wallet - Rock Center with Brian Williams
Dr. Eric Topol is the energetic chief academic officer of Scripps Health, a prominent cardiologist and the foremost figure in the field of wireless medicine. He believes the future of health lies in our own hands, namely in our smart phones and other portable electronic devices. According to Topol, “the smart phone will be the hub of the future of medicine. And it will be your health-medical dashboard.”
BBC - Future - Should we diagnose rare diseases with smartphones?
As fear of the Ebola virus escalates, Eric Topol thinks that we’re missing an important weapon. And you just need to reach into your pocket to find it. “Most communicable diseases can be diagnosed with a smartphone,” he says. “Rather than putting people into quarantine for three weeks – how about seeing if they harbour it in their blood?” A quicker response could also help prevent mistakes, such as the patient in Dallas who was sent home from hospital with a high fever, only to later die from the infection.
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Topol, meanwhile, thinks that smartphones should speed up Ebola diagnosis itself. Current tests requires specialist labs that aren’t readily available in some of the hardest hit zones, but one technique – “polymerase chain reaction” – could be performed by a cheap add-on to a mobile phone. PCR works by amplifying traces of the pathogen’s DNA in a patient’s blood sample and tagging them with a fluorescent dye. The phone’s camera can then detect the glowing dye to determine whether the virus was present in the sample.
“Ebola only has five genes – so it’s tiny but its presence in the blood should be easy to detect,” says Topol. Biotech firm Biomeme, based in Philadelphia, is already on the case. Maria Chacon Heszele and Jesse vanWestrienen, who are working on the system, point out that their portable PCR could screen someone in less than two hours from a single finger prick. It also has a low false-positive rate – just three per thousand cases.
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Review
Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer“What happens when you combine cellular phone technology with the cellular aberrations in disease? Or create a bridge between the digital revolution with the medical revolution? How will minute biological sensors alter the way we treat lethal illnesses, such as heart attacks or cancer? This marvelous book by Eric Topol, a leading cardiologist, gene hunter and medical thinker, answers not just these questions, but many many more. Topol’s analysis draws us to the very frontlines of medicine, and leaves us with a view of a landscape that is both foreign and daunting. He manages to recount this story in simple, lucid language—resulting in an enthralling and important book.”Eric Topol | Medscape Editor in Chief
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