The digitalization of healthcare : new challenges and opportunities

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. . Read more... Abstract: 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xlii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 State of the Art of Health Care: The Cubism Period (Jean-Christophe Mestres)....Pages 3-21 Reshaping Health Care Through mHealth: Lessons from the On-Demand Economy (Andrew D. Scarffe, Alexander D. Smith, David Barrett)....Pages 23-37 Tapping the Full Potential of eHealth: Business Models Need Economic Assessment Frameworks (Christophe Pascal)....Pages 39-58 Digital Health Business Models: Reconciling Individual Focus and Equity? (Thierry Garrot, Nathalie Angelé-Halgand)....Pages 59-78 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Formulating eHealth Utilizing an Ecological Understanding (Grant P. Cumming, Douglas McKendrick, Jamie Hogg, Tara French, Eva Kahana, David Molik et al.)....Pages 81-98 Evaluation Frameworks for Health Virtual Communities (Christo El Morr, Linda Eftychiou)....Pages 99-118 When Medicine Is Becoming Collaborative: Social Networking Among Health-Care Professionals (Christine Thoër, Florence Millerand, Nina Duque)....Pages 119-134 The Design of Online Communities Devoted to Health and Better Living: Using Social Interaction Features to Foster Online Contributions (Sandrine Prom Tep, Aude Dufresne, Sylvain Sénécal)....Pages 135-151 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Mobile Health: Telemedicine’s Latest Wave but This Time It’s for Real (Kyle J. Rose)....Pages 155-170 Social Media Strategies in Health Care (Françoise L. Simon, Loick Menvielle, Matthieu Salvadore, François Meurgey)....Pages 171-188 Trust and Provenance in Communication to eHealth Consumers (Grant P. Cumming, Tara French, Jamie Hogg, Douglas McKendrick, Heidi Gilstad, David Molik et al.)....Pages 189-203 Current Perspectives on e-Mental-Health Self-Help Treatments: Exploring the “Black Box” of Public Views, Perceptions, and Attitudes Toward the Digitalization of Mental Health Care (Jennifer Apolinário-Hagen)....Pages 205-223 Patient Communities: A New Paradigm for Medicine (Anne-Françoise Audrain-Pontevia, William Menvielle, Loick Menvielle)....Pages 225-237 Front Matter ....Pages 239-239 Big Data and Privacy Fundamentals: Toward a “Digital Skin” (David Manset)....Pages 241-255 Mobile Mental Health Virtual Communities: Challenges and Opportunities (Linda Eftychiou, Christo El Morr)....Pages 257-275 M-Health and Smartphone Technologies and Their Impact on Patient Care and Empowerment (Melvyn W B Zhang, Roger C M Ho)....Pages 277-291 Promoting Physical Exercise Through Embodied Trainers: A Systematic Literature Review (Sergio Gago-Masague, Thomas M. Chen, Guann-Pyng Li)....Pages 293-322 Assessing the Opportunities for Virtual, Augmented, and Diminished Reality in the Healthcare Sector (Silvia Cacho-Elizondo, José-Domingo Lázaro Álvarez, Victor-Ernesto Garcia)....Pages 323-344 Front Matter ....Pages 345-345 The New Art of Health Care: The Hyperrealism Period (Jean-Christophe Mestres)....Pages 347-370 Cyber Threats in the Health-Care Industry (Bertrand Monnet, Philippe Very)....Pages 371-379 Use of New Information and Communication Technologies in the Health Sector: The Legal Reason for Differences Between International and European Standards (Lina Williatte)....Pages 381-398 What Ethics for Telemedicine? (Alain Loute, Jean-Philippe Cobbaut)....Pages 399-416 The New Paradigms of Connected Health—What Impacts and Effects on Organizational Models of Care Structures? (Pierre Simon)....Pages 417-440 Back Matter ....Pages 441-454 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