The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.