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Health 4.0: Application of Industry 4.0 Design Principles in Future Asthma Management

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Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare

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Industry 4.0 is a well-known industrial concept leveraging individualization and virtualization across different industrial domains. At its core Industry 4.0 empowers industries to evolve from manufacturers to service providers. Recently design principles for Industry 4.0 scenarios have been proposed. This chapter discusses the validity of the design principles for the health domain investigating its suitability for the diagnostics and therapy (theragnostics)  of asthma. We come to the conclusion, that Industry 4.0 design principles work very well in the health domain especially with regards to Precision Medicine and  the rapidly progressive evolution of smart pharmaceuticals in chronic, non-communicable diseases. The concept appears to be suitable for the health domain  but its implementation and uptake will depend on future network specifications and features.

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  1. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT, Edinburgh, UK

    Christoph Thuemmler

  2. Pulmonary Department, Zhongshan Hospital, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Chunxue Bai

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Thuemmler, C., Bai, C. (2017). Health 4.0: Application of Industry 4.0 Design Principles in Future Asthma Management. In: Thuemmler, C., Bai, C. (eds) Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_2

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