Full Description
Digital technologies are currently dramatically changing healthcare. This book introduces the reader to the latest digital innovations in healthcare in fields such as artificial intelligence, points out new ways in patient care and describes the limits of its application. It also offers essential guidance in the form of structured and authoritative contributions by domain experts spanning from artificial intelligence to hospital management to radiology to dentistry to preventive medicine. Furthermore, it shares ideas and experiences of industry veterans, in particular on how IT-driven solutions could solve long-standing issues in the fields of healthcare and hospitalization. It also gives advice on what new digital technologies to consider for becoming a healthcare market leader in the future. Taken together, these contributions provide a "road map" to guide decision makers, physicians, academics, industry representatives and other interested readers to understand the large impactof digital technology on healthcare today and its enormous potential for future development.
Contents
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Foundations, Opportunities and Challenges.- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Foundations, Opportunities and Challenges.- Opening the Door for Digital Transformation in Hospitals - IT Expert's Point of View.- Digitalization from the Patients' Perspective.- Digitalization in Rehabilitation.- Digitalization in Dentistry.- Changes in Medical Processes Due to Digitalization: Examples from Telemedicine.- COVID-19 as a Driver for Digital Transformation in Healthcare.- The Radiology of the Future.- Digitalization of Pneumological Care in the Outpatient Sector - An Inventory.- Computer Vision Applications in Medical Diagnostics.- Home 4.0 - With Sensor Data from Everyday Life to Health and Care Prognosis.- Digital Healthcare Applications: Marketing, Sales and Communication.- Ethical Implications of Digitalization in Healthcare.- Efficiently Delivering Healthcare by Repurposing Solution Principles from Industrial Condition Monitoring: A Meta-Analysis.- Microservices as Architectural Style.- Value Added Process Design for Digital Transformation in Hospitals and Medical Networks.- Digital Pharmacy.- Smart Contracts in Healthcare.- Evaluating the Ethical Aspects of Online Counseling.- Machine Learning as Key Technology of AI: Automated Workforce Planning.- Six Areas of Healthcare Where AI is Effectively Saving Lives Today.
