Zócalo Public Square

Cardiologist Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine, believes that digital technology has the potential to change healthcare as we know it--but only if consumers demand change from doctors and the medical establishment. Healthcare is currently population-based, and thus wasteful, expensive, and inefficient. Wireless technology and genomics can build a new, individualized paradigm for healthcare that can help patients and save the nation billions of dollars.