Eric Topol: Patients Need To Demand, âShow Me My Data!â
Source: Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate Content: #8220;Eric Topol wants to digitize you. No, he doesnât want to transform your body into a pixelated hologram or morph your visage into a virtual avatar.
Topol, a cardiologist and the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, which came out this [...] (Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics)
When Confinement Leads To Death
Being confined to bed... ...can have fatal consequences. Incorrect fastening of restraints and inadequate monitoring led to the death of 19 people in care. Andrea M. Berzianovich and her colleagues, forensic medicine specialists from Munich and Vienna, investigated these fatalities in patients subjected to freedom-restraining measures (Dtsch Arztebl 2012; 109(3) 27). The authors analyzed a total of 26 cases of death while the individual was physically restrained. Three died of natural causes, and one committed suicide... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
