A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

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

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

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