Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

Abstract

the area of cardiovascular medicine and a futurist. In 2013, he wrote the book The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, which touched on genomics and digital technology for future medicine. In this book he continued to discuss the future of medicine, focusing on how a new innovative technology can be adopted in the medical field. This book consists of three sections, readiness for a revolu-tion, new data and information, and the impact. The first section emphasizes the influence of smartphones and the growth of genomics in medicine. The second section de-scribes the importance of the personal geographic informa-tion system (GIS), called my GIS, individual big data includ-ing multiple layers of demographic, physiologic, anatomic, biologic, and environmental data. It touches on smartphone usage in lab tests and scanning as well as by doctors. The last section discusses the impact of new medicine, genomic medicine, and digital medicine, focusing on issues related to privacy and security due to the openness of medicine, the prediction and prevention of disease with medical informat-ics tools, and the transformation of the consumer's role into the 'doctorless' patient. The book title The Patient Will See You Now seems to be a play on the expression " the doctor will see you now " . In this book, Topol argues that power will shift from doctors to pa-tients, and he emphasizes the age of patient-centered medi-cine, in which patients generate medical data using their own digital devices and communicating via their smartphones. The author insists that the smartphones might be one of the