| Description |
x, 307 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Our big, fat, sick health care system: the need for change -- Part I: Sensors. Making sense of sensors -- Doc-in-the-box -- The failing heart, the dying patient, and implantable sensors -- The smartwatch era -- Continuous care and novel sensors: a recipe for health -- Part II: Virtual care. Telehealth: fad or here to stay? -- Are we breaking the bank? -- The deepening divide -- Digital privacy - an oxymoron? -- Part III: Artificial intelligence. Demystifying AI -- Creating the AI culture -- Lazy, stupid, biased, or smarter? -- Predicting and preventing death -- Fixes, failures, and the future -- Part IV: Making our system sustainable. The value proposition and incentivizing change -- Choosing the right path -- Future models of care -- Hospital of the future. |
| Summary |
"Future care is virtual care: sensor-aided, digitally enabled, and powered by predictive analytics. Like most facets of modern life, human organs, too, are being digitally monitored. Sensors are well on their way to helping us proactively capture the information needed to predict and prevent disease. Paired with the medical world’s growing emphasis on wellness and prevention, the digital revolution will help us effectively monitor and address the chronic diseases that have been the Achilles’ heel of the health care system to date. This large-scale transition is not only going to reshape the patient-physician relationship but also dramatically change how hospitals and the business of medicine operate. Dr. Singh explores the upswell of virtual care, the evolving role of sensors, and the impact of artificial intelligence in medicine and health care through cutting-edge science, big idea projections, and patient stories. Using anecdotes from his own COVID-19 illness and medical practice, Dr. Singh shows that the success of the digital revolution in medicine is dependent on our ability to understand and adapt to this changing landscape. Future Care provides fascinating insights into how health care can become sensible, affordable, and practical and why everyone needs to become a part of the solution. It is an important and timely contribution to the ongoing and increasingly urgent conversation about medicine, technology, and health care." --publisher's website |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Technological innovations.
|
|
Detectors -- Health aspects.
|
|
Telecommunication in medicine.
|
|
Artificial intelligence -- Medical applications.
|
|
Medical informatics.
|
| Added Author |
Mukherjee, Siddhartha, writer of foreword.
|
| Added Title |
Sensors, artificial intelligence, and the reinvention of medicine |
| ISBN |
9781945564253 hc |
|
1945564253 hc |
|
More Resources