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The Digital Pill - What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System

ISBN
978-1-78756-676-7
Type
book
Date Issued
2021-03
Author(s)
Fleisch, Elgar  
Franz, Christoph
Herrmann, Andreas  
DOI
10.1108/9781787566750
Abstract
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 affordabel 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.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to practical use / society
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Publisher place
Bingley, UK
Volume
First Edition
Pages
202
Official URL
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787566750
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/110611
Subject(s)

information managemen...

health sciences

business studies

Division(s)

ICI - Institute for C...

ITEM - Institute of T...

Eprints ID
262677

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