Marie Ennis-O’Connor (@JBBC ) writes:

« There is a revolution occurring in healthcare, perhaps most noticeably in oncology; the rapid pace of new discoveries, advent of genomics, targeted therapies, telemedicine, and personalised medicine, alongside growing access to internet-based educational and support resources is creating a new era in medicine.

The Information Age is collapsing the boundary fences around previously closed information domains such as medicine.  Patients can now gain access to citations of more than 12 million medical articles online, allowing them to build a base of information that wasn’t previously possible. »

See on blogs.bmj.com