Will Technology Help More Patients Control Their Medical Data, And Help People Make Better Decisions?

Physician Eric Topol examines what he calls medicine’s “Gutenberg moment,” comparing new technology in medicine to the way the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class. In The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands, Topol predicts that this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a paternalistic medical regime in which “the doctor knows best.”