Recent developments in technology are making AI more intelligent, wearable devices more accurate, and personalized medicine increasingly mainstream.
Eric Topol, a top medical researcher, discusses the potential transformation of healthcare through artificial intelligence.
According to Eric, in the future, contacting artificial intelligence for medical advice may become a common first step when feeling sick.
Regular home testing and the use of wearables like the Apple Watch are expected to become a normal part of healthcare.
Eric Topol emphasizes the importance of advocating diet and exercise as an essential part of one's lifestyle and health plan.
He believes that artificial intelligence will never replace healthcare professionals, but will supplant their role.
Topol acknowledges the degradation of the patient-doctor relationship and stresses the need to use AI to bring it back.
Jonathan Wolff expresses gratitude to Eric Topol for being one of the few who is excited about applying machine learning and AI into healthcare, and for believing in the opportunities it presents.
Eric Topol, a cardiologist with 40 years of experience, highlights the erosion of the bond between patients and physicians, leading to compromised humanity in medicine.
Medicine turned into a business, leading to time constraints, data entry burden, and loss of empathy and communication.
Topol proposes solutions like patient empowerment, doctor liberation from keyboards using AI, and doctorless screening for diagnosis, which are already near-term realities in some parts of the world.
Eric Topol emphasizes the importance of using multimodal AI to process individual data and manage conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and depression in real time.
He believes in the possibility of preventing serious illnesses by leveraging individual data, although it's a long way off.
Eric envisions a future where digital twins can be used to anticipate potential illnesses and learn from others' data to provide personalized treatments and prevention methods.
The conversation also highlights the significance of personalization in healthcare, moving away from the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to treatments.
Eric Topol emphasizes the importance of recognizing individual uniqueness in health, particularly in nutrition. He highlights the need for personalized solutions and mentions the significance of monitoring various aspects of health over time.
Jonathan Wolff seeks Eric's view on the things that should be monitored over time for their value, expressing skepticism about the importance of monitoring everything. He also mentions the risk of companies selling unnecessary monitoring tools.
Eric Topol emphasizes the importance of privacy and security in healthcare technology, acknowledging that not everyone will be willing to adopt it.
Jonathan Wolff and Eric Topol discuss the value of continuous glucose monitoring for type one diabetics, as well as the potential for monitoring heart rate, rhythm, oximetry, and high frequency blood pressure in the future.
They also highlight the potential of self-imaging using a smartphone with a high resolution ultrasound probe, which could revolutionize medical imaging.
Eric Topol suggests the use of AI for people to image their heart and send the loop to a doctor, without needing any training.
Jonathan Wolff highlights the potential for technology to bring valuable information from home to the doctor, and the optimistic future where AI can change healthcare.
The conversation emphasizes the significance of people tracking their own data and the central role of personalization in medicine, with the hope for a real transformation in the success of medicine through understanding personalization.