Medicine Quote by Robert Wachter

The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used…

— Saul Gorn

Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.

— David Blumenthal

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

— Samuel Wilson

“While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited “disruptive innovation,” today it’s often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of…

— Robert Wachter

When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics,…

— Christopher G. Chute

Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver…

— Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

We're moving to this integration of biomedicine, information technology, wireless and mobile now - an era of digital medicine. Even my stethoscope is now…

— Daniel Kraft

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient…

— John Doolittle

“this is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by…

— Clayton M. Christensen

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I'm…

— Robert Jarvik

Medical Device technology is truly interdisciplinary.

— Chris Toumazou

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic…

— Samuel Wilson