Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Westchester

The increasing utilization of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted areas where healthcare is in transition. Over the coming decades, the practice of medicine will see a redesigned system with a focus on digital health and medical device innovation. Using his own illness with the coronavirus and his experience in the research of device technologies, Dr. Singh informs readers not only of the technology behind this digital revolution, but of how its success will lie in our ability to understand and adapt to this changing landscape.

In his most recent work, Future Care, Dr. Jag Singh details:

  -  The ways the future of health care will be virtual--aided by sensor strategies, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence

  -  Attentive care will be wherever the patient is and will be provided whenever the patient desires

  -  Clinical anecdotes and patient stories from medical practice

  -  That despite the advantages of digital health technology, it will not replace the importance of the human element of touch, empathy and compassion

  -  How healthcare can become sensible, affordable, and practical and why everyone needs to become a part of the solution.

Dr. Jag Singh is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the former Clinical Director of the Cardiology Division and the Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Chair in Cardiology and the Founding Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center. He completed his internal medicine residency, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at Mass General. He also earned a doctorate from Oxford University, a Master of science in clinical investigation from MIT-Harvard and a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study. Dr. Singh is an internationally recognized scientist, educator, and lecturer, and serves as an advisor to multiple medical device and AI companies. He lives in Boston, MA, with his family.