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Author Fleisch, Elgar, author

Title The digital pill : what everyone should know about the future of our healthcare system / Elgar Fleisch, Christoph Franz, Andreas Herrmann
Edition First edition
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents Intro -- The Digital Pill -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Will the Healthcare System Become aVictim of its Own Success? -- Chapter 1: Medical Progress is a Success Story that Comes with Consequences -- More Years -- To Suffer Ill Health? -- Medical Progress also Means New Challenges -- Economic Consequences -- Demographic Consequences -- Chapter 2: Non-communicable Diseases are Straining Our Healthcare System -- Non-communicable Diseases: Human Suffering and High Costs
Diabetes Epidemic in China -- Cardiovascular Disease in Mexico -- Chapter 3: Digitalization Will Be a Key Success Factor for the Healthcare System of the Future -- Preventive Health Care in Ancient China -- A Historic Model -- Preventive Dental Medicine in Sweden -- A Contemporary Model -- Health Promotion Board in Singapore -- Healthy Diet and Preventive General Medicine in Spain -- Digitalization is Essential to Tomorrow's Medicine -- Digitalization Supports Behavioral Change -- Digitalization Boosts Efficiency -- Digitalization Democratizes Medicine -- Digitalization Improves Quality
Digitalization Accelerates Medical Research -- Part II: Digital Technologies are Changing Patients and Healthcare Systems -- Chapter 4: Do-it-Yourself Medicine -- DIY Research -- Self-help and Self-diagnosis -- Sharing Between (Expert) Patients -- PatientsLikeMe -- Health Unlocked -- Continuous Patient Self-monitoring -- Quantified Self -- Do-it-yourself Tests -- Urine Test by Healthy.io -- Stool Sample Test by Viome and DayTwo -- Genetic Testing by Color Genomics -- The limits of Do-it-yourself -- Citizen Scientists -- Chapter 5: The Digital Doctor-Patient Relationship
Selecting, Making Appointments with, and Reviewing Doctors Online -- Practo -- DocPlanner -- Online Consultation -- Chunyu Yisheng -- Digital Physician Assistant -- Enlitic -- Arterys -- RADLogics -- Wlycloud -- MedScape -- Online Pharmacies -- Digital One-stop Platforms -- Unstaffed Mini-clinics -- Chapter 6: Digital Therapeutics -- Digital Personal Coach -- mySugr -- Meru Health -- Propeller Health -- Kaia Health -- Magic Leap -- Akili Interactive Labs -- Mindmaze -- Digital Therapeutics by Prescription -- Pear Therapeutics -- Evidation Health -- Digital Adherence Coach
Proteus Digital Health -- Chapter 7: Digital Health Data and Data Security -- Health Data as a Strategic Asset -- A Brief History of Health Data -- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) as the Core of Health Data -- Omics Data -- Self-monitoring Data -- Exponential Growth in Data Volume -- Collecting, Processing, and Analyzing Data -- Data Collection -- The Problem with Distributed Incompatible Data -- Transforming Data into Medical Knowledge -- Primary and Secondary Use of Health Data -- Digital biomarkers -- Managing Privacy, Security, and Ethical Concerns -- Data security
Summary The Digital Pillreflects on apps and digital projects launched by pharmaceutical companies in recent years, as well as the first accreditations for digital pills already issued by recognised regulators. The Digital Pillis essential reading for anyone working in, engaged with or interested in understanding the e-health community
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Privacy or the Right to Informational Self-determination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical care -- Technological innovations
Medical telematics.
Wireless communication systems in medical care.
Medical bioinformatics.
Medical, Informatics.
Medical care -- Technological innovations
Medical telematics
Wireless communication systems in medical care
Form Electronic book
Author Franz, Christoph, 1960-
Herrmann, Andreas, 1964-
ISBN 9781787566750
1787566757
9781787566774
1787566773