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Drawing on expert interviews, original research, and personal storytelling,
Digital Health explores the theory, science, and applications behind the uses of emerging digital technologies in healthcare.
List of contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Historical Overview and the Evolution of Digital Health Technologies
- Chapter 1: A Brief History of Biomedical Products Regulation
- Chapter 2: Medical Benefit-Risk Determination
- Chapter 3: Medical Ethics Models and Frameworks in Digital Health
- Chapter 4: The Evolution of Digital Technologies in Healthcare
- Chapter 5: Pulse Oximetry in Anesthesia -- The "Perfect" Medical Technology Use Case
- Chapter 6: The Technology of Biotechnology and Big Data in Medicines
- Chapter 7: Electronic Health Records: Promises, Progress, and Problems
- Part 2: The Ten Toxicities of Digital Health
- Chapter 8: Introducing the Ten Toxicities
- Chapter 9: Adversary-Driven Toxicities
- Chapter 10: Non-Adversary-Driven Toxicities
- Part 3: Frameworks for Digital Risk and Threat Mitigation
- Chapter 11: Modeling Cyber Threats as Medical Adverse Events
- Chapter 12: Current State of Cyber Regulation: Understanding Privacy vs. Security
- Chapter 13: Cyber Time: The Key Advantage of the Adversary
- Chapter 14: Quantifying Cyber Threat for Patients, Providers, and Institutions
- Chapter 15: Case Studies: Notable Healthcare Hacks and Lessons Learned
- Part 4: Digital Health -- Hope, Hype and Risk Mitigation in Practice
- Chapter 16: The "Smart" Clinic
- Chapter 17: The Patient as a Mobile Healthcare Consumer
- Chapter 18: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Chapter 19: Virtual Health Assistants
- Chapter 20: Wearables
- Part 5: The Future of Digital Health Benefit-Risk Assessment and Management
- Chapter 21: 5 Mitigations for the 10 Toxicities
About the author
Eric Perakslis is Chief Science Officer at the Duke Clinical Research Insititute, Professor in the Department of Population Sciences at Duke School of Medicine, Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and on the Board of Directors of the Kidney Cancer Association and Vivli. He has previously served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Scientist (Informatics) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Strategic Advisor on Innovation to Médécins Sans Frontières and internationally as Chief Information Officer of the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer in Amman, Jordan.
Martin Stanley leads the Strategic Technology Branch at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). He has previously led the Cybersecurity Assurance Program at CISA and the Enterprise Cybersecurity Program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and held executive leadership positions at Vonage and UUNET Technologies.
Erin Brodwin, health tech reporter and author.
Summary
Drawing on expert interviews, original research, and personal storytelling, Digital Health explores the theory, science, and applications behind the uses of emerging digital technologies in healthcare.
Additional text
This book is an essential primer for anyone entering the digital health space. As new technologies continue to reshape medicine and health, we are all going to need to step back and assess where we are and where we are likely to be. In this volume, Perakslis and Stanley provide a starting point for getting smart on what is current and what is to come in digital health.
