Eric Topol is the founder and CEO of Verily, a company that develops digital technology. He says he had mixed opinions about his decision to leave academic medicine for this new career in tech. The future of healthcare could be very different from what we know now, according to Topol.
Physician and author Vivian Lee talks about her book The Long Fix with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lee argues that we can transform health care in the United States, though it may take a while. She argues that the current fee-for-service system incentivizes doctors to provide services rather than keep patients healthy and that these are not the same thing. Topics explored include innovations in Medicare and in technology that might change treatment incentives as well as the weird world of health care pricing.