The Digitization of Healthcare
New Challenges and Opportunities
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The Digitization of Healthcare
New Challenges and Opportunities
About This Book
Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector. With new technology outbreaks, our vision of healthcare has been drastically changed, switching from a 'traditional' path to a digitalized one. Providing an overview of the role of IT in the healthcare sector, The Digitization of Healthcare illustrates the potential benefits and challenges for all those involved in delivering care to the patient. The incursion of IT has disrupted the value chain and changed business models for companies working in the health sector, and also raised ethical issues and new paradigms about delivering care. This book illustrates the rise of patient empowerment through the development of patient communities such as PatientLikeMe, and medical collaborate platforms such as DockCheck, thus providing a necessary tool to patients, caregivers and academics alike.
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Table of contents
- The Digitization of Healthcare
- Notes on Contributors
- Part I Digitalization of Health-Care Overview and Outlook of a Promising Sector
- Part II New Challenges for the Practice of Medicine
- Part III E-Health and Actual Challenges
- Part IV From M-Health to New Perspectives at the Digital Age
- Part V New Paradigm and Perspectives for Health in a Digital Age
- Conclusion
- Index