THE SMART PATIENT
Let digitization keep you healthy.
The eBook is available in October, 2023.
THE SMART PATIENT
Stay and become healthy with digitization!
Digital nutrition, digital exercise, digital sleep - this guidebook conveys in an impressive and easy-to-understand way how digitalization makes us healthy. In around 60 short stories, from babies to after death, the authors take us into the fascinating world of digital health and explain how the smartphone can keep us healthy and make us healthy. The book describes how digitalization is essential for people and their health. The shift in the interface between humans and machines has long since begun. And one person in particular benefits: humans!
Dedication
This book is dedicated to you, dear reader. Because you have already taken the important step of dealing with the topic of digital health. And you will change healthcare with your everyday decisions when you use digital services. The sum of all our choices will unleash a tremendous force of innovation on the healthcare system. We believe in the swarm intelligence of people, who will revolutionize
healthcare „from the bottom up“, voting with their feet. And likewise, we believe in all healthcare professionals who do not give up continuously working on further transforming analog healthcare. People are waiting and grateful for it, because „The Patient Will See You Now“, in the words of cardiologist and best-selling author Eric Topol. Today we would have to say: „The doctor wants to see your smartphone now!”
Table of Contents
Authors
David Matusiewicz
Prof. Dr. David Matusiewicz is Dean and Institute Director for Health and Social Services at FOM University - one of the largest universities in Europe. With DXM Group, he invests in exponential technologies in healthcare. He co-founded 10xD, among others, and is also an author, editor, columnist, keynote speaker and healthcare presenter. David Matusiewicz is one of the best-known voices of digital health in Germany.
Jochen A. Werner
Prof. Dr. Jochen A. Werner, physician, hospital manager and co-founder of the healthcare platform 10xD, is considered one of the pioneers of digitalization in the German healthcare system (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and the best-known critics of medical care (Die Welt). Werner initiated the transformation of Essen University Medical Center into a smart hospital, visible throughout Germany, to make medicine better and more humane. Werner is a member of the Leopoldina.
