Dave deBronkart Quotes

The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health.

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

We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.

The only way to get health care abundance is to use technology.

Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.

Healthcare is an area that has the greatest potential to benefit from technology.

We have artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D-printing, robotics and nanotechnology that have changed the face of modern medicine. It is essential for Indian doctors to familiarise themselves with the latest developments to be able to control technology and not the other way around.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum of care - from prevention, diagnosis, and treatment to monitoring and aftercare.

Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported by tele-health care and coaching.

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.

I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.

Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, 'I don't want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don't want some machine between me and my patients.'

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.