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Recently published that touch on digital health and medicine from a wide array of perspectives.
DigitalMD
by Dr. Liz Kwo.
Unleash your healthcare innovator within and build a better future for patients everywhereTo stay on top of the rapid digital transformation in healthcare, hear from tenured healthcare executive and entrepreneur Dr. Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, MPH as she shares her hard-won takeaways. Discover the perspective of a healthcare provider, payer, and pioneer by reading the consolidated knowledge acquired on a journey through the health industry. Paperback – June 11, 2024
Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence - 1st Edition
by David C. Klonoff M.D. FACP FRCP (Edin) Fellow AIMBE (Editor), David Kerr MD FRCP FRCP (Edin) (Editor), Juan Espinoza MD FAAP (Editor)
Diabetes Digital Health, Telehealth, and Artificial Intelligence explains how to develop and use the emerging technologies of digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence to address this important public health problem to deliver new hardware, software, and processes. The book explores trends in developing and deploying the three most important emerging technologies for diabetes: digital health, telehealth, and artificial intelligence. This book is essential to clinicians, scientists, engineers, industry professionals, regulators, and investors, offering the tools that will be used to create the next generation products to support a precision medicine approach to manage diabetes. According to the CDC, in the US there are 37 million people with diabetes and 96 million people with prediabetes. Diabetes triples the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke and is the leading cause of blindness, end stage renal failure, and amputations. The management of diabetes is becoming increasingly dominated by digital health tools consisting of wearable sensors, mobile applications providing decision support software, and wireless communication tools. Digital health provides new data streams that can be combined to create unique approaches for diabetes based on a precision medicine paradigm.
Digital Disruption in Healthcare (Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age)
by Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Editor), Suresh Chalasani (Editor), Elliot Sloane (Editor)
Digital disruption in healthcare is generating new technologies, applications, and large data sets, and these are all precipitating significant changes in healthcare processes. Emerging applications due to digital disruption and their impact on healthcare delivery and quality are becoming some of the key focus areas of research. However, to date, systematic, generalizable, full-scale evaluation of these new technologies/applications is lacking. Little is known about the net short- or long-term health and wellness impacts of digital technologies. Similarly, the care-delivery and management process changes caused by digital disruption are forcing healthcare organizations to react rather than plan for them in advance. Given these gaps, this book addresses the technology, applications, data, and process aspects of digital disruption in healthcare.
This volume is a collection of key areas in health and wellness impacted by digital disruption. It highlights the benefits, barriers,facilitators, and transformative forces that are shaping healthcare digital disruption. June 25, 2023
Digital Health Care outside of Traditional Clinical Settings
I. Glenn Cohen & Daniel B. Kramer (Editors)
Health care delivery is shifting away from the clinic and into the home. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products was on the rise. In the coming years, patients will increasingly interact with digital products at every stage of their care, such as using wearable sensors to monitor changes in temperature or blood pressure, conducting self-directed testing before virtually meeting with a physician for a diagnosis, and using smart pills to document their adherence to prescribed treatments. This volume reflects on the explosion of at-home digital health care and explores the ethical, legal, regulatory, and reimbursement impacts of this shift away from the 20th-century focus on clinics and hospitals towards a more modern health care model. May 2, 2024
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
By Robert Wachter M.D.
While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital.
Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.
The Startup Protocol A Guide for Digital Health Startups to Bypass Pitfalls and Adopt Strategies That Work
By Sally Frank Lead – Health & Life Sciences | Microsoft for Startups
The goal of this book is to help founders and their teams identify blind spots and avoid the most common pitfalls of starting a digital health company. Having spent time with founders, VC companies, and most importantly, prospective digital health startups, patterns have emerged regarding those startups that are successful and those that die an often slow and painful death. While not a recipe for guaranteed success, having a guidebook of sorts can help navigate the perils associated with building a digital health company and can very likely improve the odds of success.
The book goes through the typical life cycle of an early-stage company, from ideation to the first few customer deals, and highlights best practices for tackling the challenges at each stage. Published 2024.