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Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System [Kõva köide]

(University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland), (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x22 mm, kaal: 479 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2021
  • Kirjastus: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1787566765
  • ISBN-13: 9781787566767
  • Formaat: Hardback, 224 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x22 mm, kaal: 479 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2021
  • Kirjastus: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • ISBN-10: 1787566765
  • ISBN-13: 9781787566767
Information technology is changing healthcare in numerous wide-ranging aspects, including significantly improving the overall quality of patient care and therefore helping to reduce limitations in people's daily lives.



The Digital Pill reflects on how digital technologies can combat chronic diseases including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases as well as mental disorders. Chronic diseases touch every family, generate infinite suffering and cause the lion's share of every countries' healthcare spending across the world.





The authors carefully study a broad selection of contemporary companies and healthcare organizations that are shaping digital healthcare. They report pioneering cases from large and small technology, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies as well as healthcare providers of all sorts across the globe and bring forward patterns and corner stones of an affordable and patient centric digital healthcare. The Digital Pill is essential reading for anyone working in, engaged with or interested in understanding the future of healthcare.
About the Authors xi
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Part I Will the Healthcare System Become a Victim of its Own Success?
Chapter 1 Medical Progress is a Success Story that Comes with Consequences
3(8)
Chapter 2 Non-communicable Diseases are Straining Our Healthcare System
11(14)
Chapter 3 Digitalization Will Be a Key Success Factor for the Healthcare System of the Future
25(18)
Part II Digital Technologies are Changing Patients and Healthcare Systems
Chapter 4 Do-it-Yourself Medicine
43(20)
DIY Research
44(3)
Self-help and Self-diagnosis
47(3)
Sharing Between (Expert) Patients
50(3)
Continuous Patient Self-monitoring
53(3)
Do-it-yourself Tests
56(5)
Citizen Scientists
61(2)
Chapter 5 The Digital Doctor-Patient Relationship
63(18)
Selecting, Making Appointments with, and Reviewing Doctors Online
64(3)
Online Consultation
67(3)
Digital Physician Assistant
70(4)
Online Pharmacies
74(2)
Digital One-stop Platforms
76(1)
Unstaffed Mini-clinics
77(4)
Chapter 6 Digital Therapeutics
81(18)
Digital Personal Coach
85(7)
Digital Therapeutics by Prescription
92(3)
Digital Adherence Coach
95(4)
Chapter 7 Digital Health Data and Data Security
99(22)
Health Data as a Strategic Asset
100(6)
Collecting, Processing, and Analyzing Data
106(8)
Managing Privacy, Security, and Ethical Concerns
114(7)
Chapter 8 Value-based Medicine
121(14)
Data-driven Healthcare Networks
123(4)
Lifestyle Reward Programs
127(3)
Pay for Performance
130(5)
Chapter 9 Digital Drug Development
135(20)
Computer-aided Drug Discovery
137(3)
Digital Patient Recruitment for Clinical Studies
140(4)
Evidence Gained from Digital Real-World Data
144(5)
Precision Medicine
149(6)
Part III The Five Pillars of the Healthcare System of Tomorrow
Chapter 10 Re-allocation of Roles: Patients Gain Power - and Responsibility
155(4)
Chapter 11 Digital Health Data and Infrastructure: Data Donation is the New Blood Drive
159(4)
Chapter 12 Precision Medicine: The Therapy Just for Me
163(604)
Chapter 13 Focus on Results and Transparency: Payment on Delivery
767
Chapter 14 Preventive Medicine: Prevention is Better than Cure
171(6)
Glossary and Abbreviations 177(6)
Bibliography 183(14)
Index 197
Elgar Fleisch co-founded the Center for Digital Health Interventions at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on creating and testing technologies and business models for digital therapeutics. His center works in close cooperation with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, United States, and the Future Health Technologies Center in Singapore.



Christoph Franz is Honorary Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and pushes several digital life science projects in the framework of his role as Chairman of Roche/Genentech.





Andreas Herrmann has spent many years studying the decision-making behaviour of individuals, particularly the influence of technologies for supporting decisions made by individuals.