The digitization of healthcare : new challenges and opportunities /

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Imprint:London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11350282
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Other authors / contributors:Menvielle, Loick, editor.
Audrain, Anne-Françoise, editor.
Menvielle, William, editor.
ISBN:9781349951734
1349951730
1349951722
9781349951727
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: 1349951722 9781349951727
Standard no.:10.1057/978-1-349-95173-4
Table of Contents:
  • The Digitization of Healthcare; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Digitalization of Health-Care Overview and Outlook of a Promising Sector; 1 State of the Art of Health Care: The Cubism Period; 1.1 What Is Digital Health?; 1.1.1 Historical Components of the "Digital Cube"; 1.1.2 The Need to Think Outside the (Hospital) Cube; 1.1.3 The Overflowing Cube; 1.2 Is it Just a Question of Disorganization?; 1.2.1 Health Care: A Big World in a Small Word.
  • 1.2.2 Data from Doctors and Medical Staff, Including Hospital and Mental Health Workers; 1.2.3 Data from Social-Health Services and Affiliates; 1.2.4 Data from Utility Providers (e.g., Water, Electricity); 1.2.5 Data from Mobile Devices, Apps, and Sensors Set Up by Medical or Social Staff; 1.2.6 Actors' Roles and Strategies; 1.2.7 Patients; 1.2.8 Doctors and Medical Staff; 1.2.9 Pharmaceutical Companies; 1.2.10 Medical Manufacturing Companies; 1.2.11 Payers; 1.2.12 Governments; 1.2.13 Differing Perspectives; 1.2.14 Toward a Common Utopia; References.
  • 2 Reshaping Health Care Through mHealth: Lessons from the On-Demand Economy; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 From the On-Demand Economy to Health Care; 2.3 Current State: Emerging mHealth Technologies; 2.4 Future State: Integrated System-Level Adoption of mHealth; 2.5 Moving Forward: Promoting Successful Adoption of mHealth; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Tapping the Full Potential of eHealth: Business Models Need Economic Assessment Frameworks; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Promises to Financing: Assessment as Prerequisite; 3.2.1 A Favorable Context for Telemedicine; 3.2.2 Expected Significant Benefits.
  • 3.2.3 A Specific and Binding Business Model; 3.3 Applying Economic Assessment to Telemedicine: Limitations and Challenges; 3.3.1 A Brief Review of Methods; 3.3.2 Facing the Challenges of Complexity and Innovation; 3.4 Toward Multidisciplinary Evaluation Models; 3.4.1 Health Technology Assessment Models; 3.4.2 GEMSA Model; 3.4.3 Perfectible Models; 3.5 Conclusion; References; 4 Digital Health Business Models: Reconciling Individual Focus and Equity?; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Digital Innovations and Personalized Health Care; 4.3 Digital Innovations and Community-Based Patients Health-Care Providers.
  • 4.4 Digital Innovations and Territorial Performance Management of Health-Care Delivery; 4.5 Towards a Business Model Typology for Digital Health; 4.5.1 Reviewing Existing Typologies of Health Business Models; 4.5.2 Proposing a New Business Model Typology for Digital Health; 4.6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part II New Challenges for the Practice of Medicine; 5 Formulating eHealth Utilizing an Ecological Understanding; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Major Concepts; 5.2.1 Preferable Health Outcomes; 5.2.2 Gender-Specific Medicine; 5.2.3 Life Course Approach; 5.2.4 Health Web Science and Medicine 2.0.