Full Description
Learn how the future of medicine is being unlocked—one digital innovation at a time
The Future of Health is an insightful and comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of digital health. Accomplished health innovation leader Roberto Ascione delivers a practical exploration of how the latest digital technologies are transforming the practice of medicine and redefining health itself by making it more accessible, sustainable, and human.
The book includes practical, real-world examples from the United States, Asia, and Europe of technology applications, companies, and start-up that have changed—or will change—our relationship with our health and the healthcare system. Readers will also find:
How our health is becoming increasingly consumer and connected while technology is empowering patients in completely new ways and deeply transforming the doctor-patient relationship
Discussions of how the training of medical professionals, particularly doctors, has changed—or needs to change—to meet the new digital reality
Examinations of how new technologies will allow doctors to dodge many of the administrative and regulatory burdens they currently face each day
Treatments of the ability of new technologies to unlock new, holistic ways of practicing medicine, with a focus on latest developments such as Digital Therapeutics and Virtual Reality
Reflections on how digital health is fostering a shift "from cure to care" and will unleash a human-sized future for a more accessible, ubiquitous, and sustainable healthcare
The Future of Health is required reading for medical practitioners and the managers of pharmaceutical companies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of medical device companies and healthcare entrepreneurs seeking an incisive treatment of the impact of digital technology on all aspects of healthcare. Also, the general public, interested in understanding how to take better control of their own health through digital technologies, will find this book insightful and easy to comprehend.
Contents
Preface xi
Part I Digital Reflections 1
Chapter 1 Devices, Sensors, and Signals 3
From Wearables to Ingestibles—Toward the Invisibility of Digital Health 4
Roberto's View 5
Apple Watch 6
Empatica 8
Proteus Digital Health 8
Qardio 9
Thync 10
Note 14
Chapter 2 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence 15
Using Big Data to Do Mass Screening and Prevention 16
Roberto's View 18
Conversa Health 19
One Drop 20
Sensely.com 21
SkinVision 23
Notes 27
Chapter 3 Evolution of the Computer-Human Interfaces in Health Care 29
Roberto's View 32
Alexa and Echo 33
Babylon and Healthily 34
HoloLens 36
MindMaze 37
Pepper Robot 37
Psious 38
PatchAi 39
Notes 39
Chapter 4 Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 41
How Telemedicine Will Change Our Lives 42
Covid-19: The Tipping Point of Telehealth 44
Roberto's View 44
Omada Health 45
Sano 46
Teladoc Health 46
TytoCare 47
VitalConnect 48
Notes 51
Chapter 5 Digital Health Enabling Platforms 53
Platforms for Connecting Doctors and Patients, Remote Monitoring Systems, and Management of Their Therapies 54
Roberto's Vision 56
Altibbi 57
Apple Health 58
Cohealo 59
DocDoc 60
Doctolib 60
hi.health 61
Livongo 61
Paginemediche 62
Notes 69
Chapter 6 Digital Therapeutics 71
Roberto's Vision 74
Akili 76
Amicomed 77
Click Therapeutics 78
Ginger.io 79
Kaia Health 79
Voluntis 80
Notes 83
Chapter 7 Personal Genomics 85
From Mendel to Portable DNA Mapping Machines 86
Roberto's Vision 88
23andMe 90
Deep Genomics 91
Flatiron Health 92
Human Longevity 93
Sophia Genetics 94
Cellarity 94
Notes 97
Chapter 8 Open Innovation and Partnerships 99
How Companies Are Moving: The Speed and Intuition of Smaller Companies 100
Roberto's Vision 101
AlmirallShare and Digital Garden 103
Bayer G4A 104
Frontiers Health 104
Healthware Labs and Healthware Life Hub 105
HealthXL 106
Johnson & Johnson Innovation Labs (JLABS) 107
Novartis Biome 107
Open Accelerator 107
Patients' Digital Health Awards 108
Pfizer Healthcare Hubs 108
Roche HealthBuilders 109
StartUp Health 109
Vertical 110
Notes 119
Chapter 9 Lifestyle as Medicine 121
From Self-Empowerment to Lifestyle as Medicine 122
Roberto's Vision 123
Headspace 125
HealthTunes 126
Noom 127
Sleepio 127
Pioppi Protocol 128
YourCoach.health 128
Part II Human Reflections 131
Chapter 10 The New Physicians and Patients 135
An Ever-Increasing Pressure 136
Will Doctors Disappear? 138
Necessary Scientific Validation 139
Patients as Health-Care Consumers 140
Chapter 11 Old versus New 141
A Necessary Adaptation 142
New Training 143
A Collective Effort Is Needed 144
Note 145
Chapter 12 Trust versus Fear 147
The Horizon Opening Before Us 148
Double face medal 149
Chapter 13 Exponential versus Incremental 151
A Financial Revolution Too 152
Digital Health-Care Investments around the World 154
A Glance toward the Future 159
Notes 159
Conclusions A Radical Shift 161
Appendix 175
About the Author 177
About Healthware 179
Acknowledgments 181
Index 183
