5 Topic Commentaries

What Has Technology Ever Done for Me?

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  Bakul Patel, MSEE, MBA

  Director of Digital Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)

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  U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  So, these tools provide patients with wealth of easily accessible information. Access to telemedicine offers convenience. For example, it could allow a low-income patient to see a physician, you know, 30 miles away in other parts of America, where you have to travel that far.

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  Bruce J. Tromberg, PhD

  Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

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  National Institutes of Health

  There is no discovery in cancer, heart disease, metabolic disease—you name it—without advances in technology. To see things that haven’t been seen before, to develop understanding that hasn’t been developed before, and then to practically improve patients’ lives, it is a necessity.

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  Jeffrey J. Janus, MD, FACS

  Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon; Chair of Otolaryngology

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  Mayo Clinic

  The better service to the patient, the better care delivered to the patient as a result of this technology is immeasurable.

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  Christopher G. Myers, PhD

  Peetz Family Professor of Leadership; Professor of Management & Organization; Founding Faculty Director, Center for Innovative Leadership

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  Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

  But the reality is that AI-generated guidance is just one more thing for physicians to consider and it adds pressure to always reach the right answer.

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  Brian W. Hasselfeld, MD, MBA

  Medical Director of Digital Health and Telemedicine

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  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  We have a unique opportunity to think about what it means to open up our doors wider.

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