Interested in the Future of Smartphones for Healthcare?

… then have a listen to this podcast interview by Dr. Eric Topol, the Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer, as he speaks with the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).

“As we move forward over these next several years, the smartphone will be increasingly the hub of medicine,” said Dr. Topol, who authored the book “The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care.”

Dr. Topol went on to say that smartphone apps and add-on gadgets will use saliva, cheek swabs, breath and even tears to run diagnostic screenings that now require a blood sample sent to a laboratory.

Listen to his podcast interview with the AACC here: The Future of Laboratory Medicine — Dec. 6, 2012