I’m frequently approached by medical students, residents, and fellows interested in careers in informatics and digital health.  I love these conversations.  It is so fun and rewarding to be part of someone’s journey to discovering their career passion.  During my most recent conversation, I decided to try to capture it to create a post that might help many many more future students and trainees in the future.  So, this will read like part blog-post, part-interview, because mu

A rapidly growing number of health innovations such as mobile apps, diagnostic tools, and sensors are being developed with a focus on enabling health and wellness outside of the traditional medical office visit. As Eric Topol points out in his new book, The Patient Will See You Now, many of these tools will help people independently understand and manage their health. A long history of medical paternalism will be overturned as health information is returned to the individual