The Digital Transformation Of The Healthcare System Av Katarzyna Kolasa

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare. Katarzyna Kolasa sets the vision of healthcare 5.0 that relieves the burden on limited healthcare resources and creates better health outcomes by switching the focus from treatment to prediction and prevention. She advocates for a patient-centric ecosystem that empowers patients to take control of their health via new knowledge-based technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS), nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and digital therapeutics. Highlighting the mindset shift needed to transform healthcare and outlining in detail a futuristic vision of healthcare 5.0, this book will be of interest to academics and professionals of health policy, health economics and digital health.