This is the final post of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” “It isn’t enough to eliminate unnecessary care. It has to be replaced with necessary care.” – Dr. Atul Gawande Given the forces of business, technology, and science that are expanding medical ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Diagnosis genomics will break the medical diagnosis
This is the fourth installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Genomic sequencing is playing a growing role in genetic sequencing for research and drug development. Today, patient testing is generally reserved for those who have already had a preliminary ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Chatbots and the diagnosis democracy
This is the third installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Dr. Jay Parkinson of Sherpaa recently weighed in on the medical chatbot and the slow but steady automation of primary care. He notes the value proposition in deploying bot technology to do things ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Understanding overdiagnosis
This is the second installment of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Why are so many Americans getting diagnosed and treated inappropriately in the first place? Dr. Hardeep Singh, a leading researcher in this space, breaks down how the process of diagnosing a ...
Diagnosis Overkill: Consumerism, bots, genomics, and the overtreatment epidemic
This is the first of a five-part series titled “Diagnosis Overkill.” Business and technology trends are disrupting the medical diagnosis as we know it. “Virtually every family in the country, the research indicates, has been subject to overtesting and overtreatment in one ...