Eric Topol

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. ”

I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything. ”

Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs. ”

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. ”