The future of health : how digital technology will make care accessible, sustainable, and human / Roberto Ascione.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ascione, Roberto, author.

Series:

ProQuest Ebook Central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomedical Technology--trends.

Medical informatics.

Digital Technology.

United States.

Europe.

Medical Subjects:

Biomedical Technology--trends.

Digital Technology.

United States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, [2022]

Summary:

"Digital has already drastically changed our lives in areas from music, food, travel television and even social relationships. Health is also now experiencing a strong influence from the digital realm, which will change our way of thinking about healthcare and how we approach it. The recent past has already brought on changes to health that can be considered disruptive, and it will be even more so in the near future! Yet, thanks to technology, disruption will also have a very positive face, as health services will also become more humane, reintroducing a level of empathy that almost disappeared from the field of medicine in the last century. In the area of devices we have gone from heavy and very expensive laptops with computing capabilities that would be considered ridiculous by today's standards, to extremely powerful handheld computers, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices... and this process is continuing with the ever increasing levels of miniaturization and affordability. We are now reaching a point where medical devices are becoming so small that, in some cases, they are designed to be swallowed! Pervasive health data collection, and the leveraging of big crowd-sourced data sets to inform perform personalized health screenings will have a great impact by allowing the identification of patterns, cyclical repetitions and large-scale correlations that will allow to predictively alert people of potential health conditions on the horizon with a great probability of accuracy. Digital transformation can also have an impact on the medical profession and the role of physicians in a multitude of ways. Some would go as far as saying that doctors will eventually almost "disappear", because many of the activities currently being performed by them will soon be carried out by software or processes integrated in the healthcare continuum; this being amongst one of the top topics of discussion for those in the healthcare industry attempting to predict a vision of what its future holds. In the author's vision, digital transformation will instead allow the physician to go back to a much more holistic approach in the practice of medicine, and have the ability to interact with patients on a more human and empathic level, thanks predominantly to having more available to spend with them, having been freed from the bureaucratic and administrative burdens that todays' doctors are obliged to devote most of their attention to. In today's training of new doctors, it would be wise to introduce a new curriculum grounded in digital health technological topics and courageously eliminate or reduce the training norms on subjects that are already outdated by the time the new doctor is entering practice. This digital transformation will also affect the patient support staff: the nursing profession will be equally impacted by this evolution, as they will be playing a significantly larger role than the one it performs at present. Digital health will be the catalyst making systemic optimization and change possible and sustainable, creating enormous efficiencies on all the different processes. The application of innovative solutions will disrupt the endemic inefficiencies of today's healthcare industry, improve overall standards of care, increase access to it by nearly universal levels and, most importantly bring the human aspect of health back into a central role. Throughout the chapters there are practical examples of applications, companies, or start-ups that have changed, are changing and will change our relationship with health. These examples are from both the United States and Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Digital Reflections

Devices, Sensors, and Signals

From Wearables to Ingestibles-Toward the Invisibility of Digital Health

Roberto's View

Apple Watch

Empatica

Proteus Digital Health

Qardio

Thync

Note

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Using Big Data to Do Mass Screening and Prevention

Conversa Health

One Drop

Sensely.com

SkinVision

Notes

Evolution of the Computer-Human Interfaces in Health Care

Alexa and Echo

Babylon and Healthily

HoloLens

MindMaze

Pepper Robot

Psious

PatchAi

Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring

How Telemedicine Will Change Our Lives

Covid-19: The Tipping Point of Telehealth

Omada Health

Sano

Teladoc Health

TytoCare

VitalConnect

Digital Health Enabling Platforms

Platforms for Connecting Doctors and Patients, Remote Monitoring Systems, and Management of Their Therapies

Roberto's Vision

Altibbi

Apple Health

Cohealo

DocDoc

Doctolib

hi.health

Livongo

Paginemediche

Digital Therapeutics: A New Phase of Medicine

Akili

Amicomed

Click Therapeutics

Ginger.io

Kaia Health

Voluntis

Personal Genomics

From Mendel to Portable DNA Mapping Machines

23andMe

Deep Genomics

Flatiron Health

Human Longevity

Sophia Genetics

Cellarity

Open Innovation and Partnerships

How Companies Are Moving: The Speed and Intuition of Smaller Companies

AlmirallShare and Digital Garden

Bayer G4A

Frontiers Health

Healthware Labs and Healthware Life Hub

HealthXL.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation Labs (JLABS)

Novartis Biome

Open Accelerator

Patients' Digital Health Awards

Pfizer Healthcare Hubs

Roche HealthBuilders

StartUp Health

Vertical

Lifestyle as Medicine

From Self-Empowerment to Lifestyle as Medicine

Headspace

HealthTunes

Noom

Sleepio

Pioppi Protocol

YourCoach.health

Part Two Human Reflections

The New Physicians and Patients: Empowered Doctors and Health Consumers

An Ever-Increasing Pressure

Will Doctors Disappear?

Necessary Scientific Validation

Patients as Health-Care Consumers

Old versus New

A Necessary Adaptation

New Training

A Collective Effort Is Needed

Trust versus Fear: The Path Ahead

The Horizon Opening Before Us

Double face medal

Exponential versus Incremental: The Unstoppable Digital Transformation of Health

A Financial Revolution Too

Digital Health-Care Investments around the World

A Glance toward the Future

Conclusions: A Radical Shift

Connecting the dots

Five Big Changes for a Paradigm Shift

Acute versus Preventive

Observational versus Data Driven

One-by-Oneversus Collectively

Retrospective versus Predictive

Fragmented versus Integrated

The Final Goal: Humanize Care through Technology

What's Next?

A Greater Responsibility

Appendix: Speeches by Roberto Ascione

About the Author

About Healthware.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Translation of Il futuro della salute / Roberto Ascione. Milano : Ulrico Hoepli editore, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119797319

1119797314

9781119797326

1119797322

OCLC:

1285166278