The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

- Eric Topol

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's …

- Eric Topol

Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

- Eric Topol

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

- Eric Topol

I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

- Eric Topol

It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

- Eric Topol

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

- Eric Topol

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

- Eric Topol

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of doctor knows best.

- Eric Topol