The Patient as CEO Quotes

“You sign up and give Picnic permission to get your medical records from all your doctors and providers, including scans and lab results. They combine it into one easy-to-read patient dashboard that’s accessible just to you as the patient.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Curely is an app that brings board certified doctors from around the world to your smart phone without a middleman—a sort of Uber for medical care.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“If you aren’t prepared to waste money on things that might not work out, you cannot possibly do things that are transformative.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“What if someone saw you collapse and called 911 and instead of sending an ambulance, they sent an ambulance drone?”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“The capsule, about the size of a vitamin pill, contains a small robot camera that travels through your GI tract and takes pictures as it passes through your colon.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“IBM Watson is now doing cognitive cooking, inventing unique recipes that combine ingredients and flavors in new ways.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“One is Augmedix, an app that helps doctors do their charting more efficiently. The doctor wears Google Glass during the office visit and has a normal conversation with the patient—without a computer between them. Augmedix sends the audio-video feed from Google Glass to a remote, HIPAA secure location, where a trained scribe uses it to enter patient notes in the patient’s electronic health record.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Surgeons are using Google Glass in a variety of innovative ways, such as monitoring a patient’s vital signs without having to look up at a monitor.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“The average person will generate one million gigabytes of health-related data across a lifetime.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Now, crowd technologies have democratized having a chauffeur, having a personal shopper, having a grocery delivery service, and having, well, almost anything.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“The various EMR systems aren’t compatible—they can’t talk to each other.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“In 1970, medicine recognized about ten specialties. Today, we have over 170.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“one in 20 Google searches are related to health.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“The medical lab, whether it’s in a hospital or stand-alone, will eventually become a thing of the past.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Needle-free blood draws are on the near horizon, using capillary action to pull blood from a finger tip.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Sometimes I’m holding a pill bottle and can’t remember if I took the medication in the past five minutes!”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“Imagine going to your doctor and getting prescribed an app instead of a medication.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“All you have to do is place two fingers of each hand on the electrodes. The EKG is recorded through the microphone and sent to the cloud, where it’s read by a cardiologist (I can imagine eventually an AI cardiologist).”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“EyeNetra makes a device that attaches to a smart phone to do refractions, the eye exam that determines if you need glasses and what the prescription should be.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer

“If you need further discussion or treatment, instead of an office visit, you might use telemedicine or an AI physician. And if you need medicine, a drone will deliver it to your door.”
― Robin Farmanfarmaian, The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer