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Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

Eric Topol
Basic Books, 2019

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Visionary
  • Engaging

Recommendation

In lay terms, cardiologist Eric Topol describes advanced technologies and offers a balanced view of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. Each chapter begins with various miracles attributable to AI – for instance, rare disease identification and the formulation of new drugs – and then describes AI’s shortcomings and likely futures with respect to health care. Topol argues that the best outcomes stem from collaboration between doctors and AI. He implores decision makers to leverage AI immediately for routine health care tasks – chores that consume doctors’ time and hamper their efforts to build trusting, caring relationships with patients. 

Take-Aways

  • To fix health care, Americans need big data, deep machine learning and, most critically, human empathy.
  • The United States today practices “unintelligent medicine.” It ranks a distant last among OECD nations in terms of quality.
  • The US health care system lags most other sectors in technology adoption.

About the Author

Eric Topol, MD, is a world-renowned cardiologist, executive vice president of Scripps Research, founder of a new medical school and one of the top 10 most-cited medical researchers. He also wrote The Patient Will See You Now and The Creative Destruction of Medicine.

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