The Future of Digital Medicine

What if you could use a smartphone to check your vital signs? What if a doctor could download patient schematics and records instantaneously, issue a diagnosis and order treatment with a few simple tablet taps?

Today we're envisioning the future of medicine, from user friendly preventive care in the home, to cutting edge doctor's offices and operating rooms.

Joining us to talk about how medicine in the future will look and feel are:

Dr. Eric Topol, author of "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Healthcare." He's the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, and a cardiologist.

Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth.

Dr. Joel Feinman, president of Valley Medical Group in Western Massachusetts.

Here's the "hospital of the future," as envisioned in the 1950s.