Our guest speaker for tomorrow’s class is Andrea Kissack, Senior Editor, Science at KQED. Andrea has suggested the following readings:

Here are three  articles on the digital health makeover that I like. The third is very skeptical but worth reading,  as it comes from the Times (I actually spoke with Elizabeth at the Rock Health conference that she is writing about) and I think east coast journalists look at us out in CA like we have all drank the cool-aid …

Eric Topol/WSJ-

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303404704577311421888663472?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303404704577311421888663472.html

The Robot Will See You now/The Atlantic-

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/the-robot-will-see-you-now/309216/

and the article questioning the hype around digital health from the NYT’s Elizabeth Rosenthal

Big Data–

How Big Data is Changing Medicine/KQED (from last week)

http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/how-big-data-is-changing-medicine/

If you want to dig deeper into  efforts to make data more available to accelerate scientific research, here is a talk from an advocate.

Ted Radio hour on Privacy and the need for sharing medical information through medical records, wearables, etc. 

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=265700003&m=268935002