Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine: The High-Tech, High-Touch Path Into the Future

Health care as it stands today needs to be re-imagined.  Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine by Paul Cerrato and Dr. John Halamka challenges the profession to renegotiate its priorities and address the fact that it’s become timid and reluctant to explore new care delivery models.  The guiding premise of this book is that rethinking and reimagining the way medicine is practiced in the 21st century will improve health outcomes, and that technology is central to this transformation.

 Dr. Halamka is the President and Paul Cerrato is the Senior Research Analyst and Communications Specialist for Mayo Clinic Platform, which is harnessing novel technologies to change how care is provided. This cutting-edge work, along with their combined 80 years of experience in healthcare, afford Dr. Halamka and Mr. Cerrato authoritative voices in technology and health care.

This book shows how one-size-fits-all health care is slowly giving way to a more precise, personalized approach that takes into account each person’s unique environmental and genetic risk factors. It discusses the use of several emerging technological tools that give each patient a unique “topographical map” to navigate their journey.
 
 Artificial intelligence in health care must be accurate, equitable and ethical; providers need to embrace a better way to predict diseases, identify effective treatments and rethink much of the conventional wisdom that has been handed down over the decades. Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine provides the guide to doing just that.
 

Paul Cerrato, MA, is the senior research analyst and communications specialist for the Mayo Clinic Platform, which focuses on how to discover, validate, and deliver better diagnostics and treatment, with the help of computer science, data analysis and virtual health services.  Mr. Cerrato has more than 40 years of experience working in healthcare as a medical journalist, research analyst, clinician, and educator. He has served as the Editor of InformationWeek Healthcare; Executive Editor of Contemporary OB/GYN; Senior Editor of RN Magazine; and contributing writer/editor for the Yale University School of Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, InformationWeek, Medscape, and MedpageToday. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has listed Mr. Cerrato as one of the most influential healthcare IT columnists. Among his achievements are six editorial awards from the American Business Media—often referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of business journalism—and the Gold Award from the American Society of Healthcare Publications Editors for best-signed editorial.
 
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, leads a portfolio of platform businesses focused on transforming healthcare by leveraging
artificial intelligence, connected healthcare devices, and a network of trusted partners. Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics,
Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing healthcare information strategy and policy for more than 25 years. Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Halamka was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is a practicing emergency medicine physician. As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration, and governments around the world plan their healthcare information strategies. A member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Halamka has written a dozen books about technology-related issues, hundreds of articles, and thousands of posts on the Geekdoctor blog.  He also runs Unity Farm Sanctuary in Sherborn, Massachusetts—the largest animal sanctuary in New England.