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Digital Transformation and its Potential for Healthcare

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Digital Transformation

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While the digital transformation is well underway in numerous areas of society, medicine still faces immense challenges. Nevertheless, the potential resulting from the interaction of modern biotechnology and information technology is huge. Initial signs of the transformation can be seen in numerous places – a transformation that will further be accelerated by the integration of previously separate medical data silos and the focused use of new technologies. In this chapter, we describe the current state of integrated diagnostics and the mechanisms of action behind the emerging field of digital healthcare. One of the areas of focus is the recent revolution caused by artificial intelligence. At the same time, we have seen the emancipation of patients who now have access to an enormous breadth of medical knowledge via social networks, Internet search engines, and healthcare guides and apps. Against this backdrop, we will discuss the change in the doctor-patient relationship as well as the changing roles of doctors and computers, and the resulting business models.

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    Horst Hahn & Andreas Schreiber

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Hahn, H., Schreiber, A. (2019). E-Health. In: Neugebauer, R. (eds) Digital Transformation. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58134-6_19

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