
A Virtual Care Blueprint
How Digital Health Technologies Can Improve Health Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction, and Cost-Effectiveness
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Book Description
Mobile Health: The Digital Revolution in Healthcare examines innovation in U.S. healthcare with respect to digital health and mobile health technologies. The author, through an immersive, challenging, and deeply revealing personal experience explores the ways in which technology and the digital revolution are making big changes to healthcare around the world. Exploring innovation at the intersection of health policy, medicine, and digital health technology, the book also explores important applications of technology to the current gaps in healthcare. Through the lens of innovative digital health start-ups, big tech companies, entrepreneurs, highly respect policy researchers, actual patients, and the authors’ personal tragic story, this book shows how the industry can and will innovate to improve the system. The author highlights how innovators must focus on building solutions that solve problems at the patient’s level to improve health and support wellbeing through a fundamental shift from reactive to proactive healthcare services. The book also discusses current topics in healthcare reform and innovation, illustrating it through the perspective of caring for an acutely ill patient. Throughout the book, the pressures and motivations driving modern healthcare in the U.S. are explored as new business models and solutions are introduced, and how real improvements for patients can be successful through innovation and research.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dr. Greg Weidner, MD, FACP
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Digital Health—A New Industry
Chapter 3: The Smartphone and the Internet
Chapter 4: Refocusing our Collective Efforts: Addressing Health Risk Factors
Chapter 5: Bridging and Adjusting the Setting of Care
Chapter 6: Telemedicine—The Genesis of Virtual Care
Chapter 7: Telemedicine: The Evidence
Chapter 8: The Patient Relationship: The Softer Side of Virtual Care
Chapter 9: Data Collection in Healthcare—an overview
Chapter 10: Wearables and Predictive Analytics
Chapter 11: Remote-Patient Monitoring
Chapter 12: RPM-Driven Virtual Care: Frontline Perspectives
Chapter 13: Remote-Patient Monitoring Outcomes
Chapter 14: Digging Deeper: Outcomes by Condition
Chapter 15: Payment and Policy
Chapter 16: Digital Therapeutics
Chapter 17: Furthering the Field and Adoption
Chapter 18: Our Moral Responsibility and a Compass
Chapter 19: Conclusion
Author(s)
Biography
Robert L. Longyear III works in healthcare research, innovation, and strategy. He is currently VP of Digital Health and Innovation at Wanderly. He studied Healthcare Management and Policy at Georgetown University where he completed his thesis on innovative payment and delivery system reform efforts in state Medicaid programs. Robert has worked in health policy for a national managed care trade association, a leading Medicaid research institute, and at a digital health technology company. He has contributed to several major research studies and has spoken at conferences and events to promote innovation and research in healthcare. When his mom's chronic myeloid leukemia spiraled out of control, he became a caregiver as she fought for her life. The 6 months navigating the healthcare system provided the best education possible. This experience informs his work every single day.