How Digital Technologies Are Changing Health Care
An interview with Jagmeet Singh
Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine by Jagmeet Singh
Health care is in a state of transition.
Over the next few decades, the practice of medicine will become increasingly virtual, aided by digital technologies like artificial intelligence, telehealth, and wearable devices.
Harvard Medical School professor Jagmeet Singh is witnessing many of these changes firsthand. His new book, Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine, draws from his work as a cardiologist, his research into device technologies, and his own experience being hospitalized with COVID-19 to explore the rapidly changing health care landscape.
Singh avoids painting a dystopian picture. Instead, he explains how we might understand and adapt to technological changes to support a more equitable, accessible, and accountable health care system.
In this episode of The Written Word, Harvard Medicine speaks with Singh about the genesis of the book and the important lessons he hopes readers will take from it.
Singh is a professor of medicine at HMS and a practicing cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. As a clinician-scientist, his research has focused on innovative device therapies, sensors, AI, and virtual care.
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In this book excerpt, Singh describes a patient encounter that raises questions about disease risk and prediction — and discusses how AI could offer useful insights.
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Adapted from Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine by Jagmeet Singh, published by Mayo Clinic Press. Copyright 2023 Mayo Clinic Press.