The Digital Doctor : How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare

Editor: Chayakrit Krittanawong

ISBN: 9780443157288

Imprint: Academic Press

Published: January, 2025

Pages: 496

Paperback

Description

The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare discusses digital health and demonstrates the appropriateness of each technology using an evidence-based approach. It serves as a comprehensive summary on current, evidence-based digital health applications, future novel digital health technologies (e.g., mobile health, blockchain, web3.0), as well as some of the current challenges and future directions for digital health within the various medical subspecialties. This book is a comprehensive review of digital health for clinicians, researchers, bioinformatic students, biomedical engineers interested in this topic.

Key features

• Provides a history and overview of the various modalities of digital health and their application within each field of medicine as narrated by leading experts

• Discusses current digital health-based medical research, including landmark trials within each field of medicine

• Addresses current knowledge gaps that clinicians commonly face that often prevent the application of digital health-based research to clinical practice

• Provides examples of specific cases and discusses challenges and biases associated with digital health

Readership

Clinicians (all specialties), academicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, engineers, scientists, and practitioners working in medical research using artificial intelligence and machine learning for predicting trends of various diseases

Table of contents

1. History, Digital Health in Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

2. Digital Health Technology:

3. Machine learning:

4. Deep learning:

5. Blockchain:

6. Cybersecurity:

7. Mobile applications:

8. Personalized Health:

9. Precision Medicine:

10. Social media:

11. Virtual reality:

12. Clinical decision support:

13. Software design:

14. Telehealth:

15. Sensors:

16. Ethics in digital health:  

17. Digital health from high to middle- and low-income countries:  

18. Emerging digital health tools for everyone:

19. Practical primer:

About the editor 

Chayakrit Krittanawong

Dr. Chayakrit Krittanawong is a leading authority in AI and space health research in medicine. He’s one of the few cardiologists chosen from all over the world to oversee, commission, and review the American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Decision Pathway and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines on Performance Measures and ACC/ AHA Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. He is also a writing committee of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Clinical Practice Guidelines. He is a clinician-scientist interested in precision space medicine, using integrative omics and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain to assist physicians and patients worldwide. His primary research interests include bioinformatics, big data analytics, multiomics, machine learning, deep learning, digital health, wearable technology, and preventive medicine. Dr. Krittanawong is an author of more than 230 peer-reviewed publications and a coinventor of many medical patents. He’s received numerous awards from various societies and organizations for his work in artificial intelligence, medical physics, and medical imaging. He’s lectured at the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association in the United States and abroad.