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Jun. 01, 2012
Can Technology Deliver Better Health Care?
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Smartphones can monitor many of your vital signs at home--and do it more cheaply than your doctor. But will technology deliver better medical care? Dr. Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Dr. Reed Tuckson, head of UnitedHealth Group, and Dr. Arnold Relman, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discuss the future of digital health.
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Eric Topol
Author, "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care" (Basic Books, 2012)
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
La Jolla, California -
Reed Tuckson
Executive Vice President
Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group
Minnetonka, Minnesota -
Arnold Relman
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts
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