Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

In a very insightful book, Topol, builds on the key themes from his previous works - In "Creative Destruction..", he had highlighted the digitizing of all information pertaining to our health and in "Patient Will See..", he had provided a roadmap for new service models that are truly patient-centric. Here, he extends those themes even further and posits that AI, correctly applied, will be transformative to healthcare delivery. That is not necessarily a novel prediction. Numerous authors have highlighted the increasing role of machine-learning/AI in healthcare (and more than a few tech companies have hyped it). Topol acknowledges all that enthusiasm, and using a short set of examples hihglight the value of AI in the first chapter itself. The rest of the book is a systematic expansion of where Topol sees the biggest opportunities in AI are - to the extent he calls it the next industrial revolution. Topol does an excellent job in differentiating clinicians as those that work with and without patterns - these two chapters highlighting the complexities and skill set required to master a cognitive, integrative process is perhaps the most interesting part of the book. These highlight the key assumptions AI developers should (and shouldn't) make while designing their systems. The discussions on how health systems are approaching AI and ML is interesting, but a reader familiar with the academic literature may brush it off as old news; however, Topol manages to convey the key insights and implications that can be extrapolated to other applications. He also provides an interesting take on the role of AI in nutrition and mental health and then becomes very generous with imagination in his discussion on virtual medical assistant. Imaginative, informative, and inspiring - but Topol, almost always ignores the question of "who will pay for it" that has dogged the field of mHealth etc for a while. A reader would have benefited from his expanded views on this issue as well. Overall, an excellent read for anyone remotely interested in healthcare or technology and a wonderful thought-starter for any start-up.

Eric Tool has created another great book. Building on the foundation of the Creative Destruction of Medicine, a book he wrote in 2012 related to the digital revolution in medicine, Deep Medicine shares the rapid progress that has been made, particularly in the last few years in AI technology throughout medicine and science. It is a book rich with insite and information. Having read Deep Medicine twice (rereading Creative Destruction in between) it becomes clear that AI is rapidly becoming a compelling force in the healthcare world more than likely faster than the slow moving medical and biomedical research communities can deal with the change. Because it so successfully brings together the patterns of change that AI is driving, Deep Medicine will be incredibly important in helping us to understand the impact of AI and therefore allow a shaping of the future where we can gain maximum benefit as this technology rapidly evolves. Every page contains gems of information and clues to creating a better future. I know of no deeper thinker on how technology is shaping the future of healthcare and biomedical research (which is the future of healthcare and biomedical research) than Eric, a great physician, scientist, technologist and communicator. If you have anything to do with shaping the healthcare and research world Deep Medicine will change you perspective in a very positive manner.

The first time I encountered anything by Eric Topol was when I read his last book

Deep Medicine is a fascinating and superbly well informed view of how we can and should harness new technologies to improve healthcare. Dr Topol is an absolute authority on the medical applications of technology and offers a balanced, cautiously optimistic but still realistic overview of the future. Highly recommended reading for those in the medical world and patients alike - Iet's hope we can follow Dr Topol's advice to harness technology to help Doctors be more human.

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時代の動きを的確に捉えている快作です。医療の行政に携わる方々にも読んでいただきたいと思います。

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ein echter page turner - ein mitreißendes Buch, spannend geschrieben und hochaktuell, ein Muss für alle, die sich für KI in der Medizin interessieren