Eric Topol

heart rate and all sorts of things that are derivatives of that.

No less, you could have other sensors like a glucose monitoring and on and on.

No less your electronic health record.

And there's no integration of any of this.

So this idea that we could have a really intelligent AI virtual coach for the patient

which, as you said, connects with a physician as needed, bringing in the data or bringing in some type of issue that the doctor needs to attend to.

But it doesn't seem like anything is getting done.

We have the AI capabilities, but nothing's getting done.

It's frustrating because I wrote about this in 2019 in the Deep Medicine book.

And it's just like some of the most sophisticated companies, you would think, Apple, For the Ring, Aura, and so many others, they have the data, but they don't integrate anything.

And they don't really set up notifications for patients.

How are we going to get out of this rut?

Yeah, I mean, in many ways, it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, which is we're in this phenomenal era of information to the fifth power.

But here we are.

We have a lot of data from multiple sources, and it doesn't get integrated.

So, for example, a person has a problem, and they don't know what is the root cause of it.

Let's say it's poor sleep, or it could be that they're having...

stress, which would be manifest through their heart rate or heart rate variability or all sorts of other metrics.

And there's no intelligence provided for them to interpret their data because it's all siloed.

And we're just not really doing that for patients.