Book: The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System
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 affordable 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.
Guest Lecture
Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Publications
English Language Book:
Fleisch, E., Franz, C. and Herrmann, A. (2021). The Digital Pill: What Everyone Should Know about the Future of Our Healthcare System, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley (UK). ISBN: 978-1-78756-676-7. doi.org: 10.1108/978-1-78756-675-020211015. Learn more here.
German Language Book:
Fleisch, E., Franz, C., Herrmann, A., Mönninghoff, A., Die digitale Pille: Eine Reise in die Zukunft unseres Gesundheitssystems, Campus Verlag: Frankfurt a.M., Deutschland. Learn more here.
Authors
Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch, Christoph Franz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Herrmann, & Annette Mönninghoff
Insights
Chapter 1: The cost of medical progress
Chapter 2: How can we stop the spread of chronic conditions around the world?
Chapter 3: How going digital might help us get better care
Chapter 4: DIY hacks to a healthy life
Chapter 5: Scaling up online care around the world
Chapter 6: Helping Dr Strange develop his superpowers