The Future of Health

Автор книги: Roberto Ascione id книги: 2190327 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 2824 руб. (26,21$) Читать книгу Купить и скачать книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Медицина Правообладатель и/или издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 30 октября 2021, 16:32 ISBN: 9781119797319 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

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Learn how the future of medicine is being unlocked—one digital innovation at a time The Future of Health is an insightful and comprehensive overview of the past, present, and future of digital health. Accomplished health innovation leader Roberto Ascione delivers a practical exploration of how the latest digital technologies are transforming the practice of medicine and redefining health itself by making it more accessible, sustainable, and human. The book includes practical, real-world examples from the United States, Asia, and Europe of technology applications, companies, and start-up that have changed—or will change—our relationship with our health and the healthcare system. Readers will also find: How our health is becoming increasingly consumer and connected while technology is empowering patients in completely new ways and deeply transforming the doctor-patient relationship Discussions of how the training of medical professionals, particularly doctors, has changed—or needs to change—to meet the new digital reality Examinations of how new technologies will allow doctors to dodge many of the administrative and regulatory burdens they currently face each day Treatments of the ability of new technologies to unlock new, holistic ways of practicing medicine, with a focus on latest developments such as Digital Therapeutics and Virtual Reality Reflections on how digital health is fostering a shift “from cure to care” and will unleash a human-sized future for a more accessible, ubiquitous, and sustainable healthcare The Future of Health is required reading for medical practitioners and the managers of pharmaceutical companies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of medical device companies and healthcare entrepreneurs seeking an incisive treatment of the impact of digital technology on all aspects of healthcare. Also, the general public, interested in understanding how to take better control of their own health through digital technologies, will find this book insightful and easy to comprehend.

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ROBERTO ASCIONE

I trained as a doctor but never became one because I was also passionate about computer science and torn between these two elements: programming and medicine. I realized that everything in health care was largely analog, and still is in many ways. I started writing my own software using MIT's Logo programming language in middle school, and ever since I had been fascinated by the idea that, using computer science, you could write software to manage practically any problem. It was an intuition that time has confirmed!

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Thync is a small device aimed at reducing anxiety and ensuring a pleasant sleep. It rests on the neck and is managed via a smartphone app, giving users a choice between one of two programs. In the United States, much importance is given to the dangers of stress. According to studies of the American Psychological Association, it is in our times that the highest number of anxious states has been recorded in the history of the American population. Thync was developed by a team of neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and it went through five years of trials and thousands of test sessions. The instrument uses electrostimulation to alter the state of the brain and help the users relieve stress and anxiety without necessarily resorting to the use of anxiolytic drugs. The triangular device should be placed on the neck, at the back of the head, or on the forehead, and then activated: Thync, through small electric discharges, interacts with the nervous system, helping the wearer to recover his or her psychophysical balance for an improvement in health. “Neurostimulation is based on the link between the nerves located in the back of the neck and two areas of the brain, which affect stress and sleep” explains Isy Goldwasser, CEO of the company. But researchers want to push Thync beyond the boundaries of its original purpose, toward even more ambitious goals. They began with the assumption that the scientific literature is increasingly highlighting the important role that the nervous system plays in regulating the immune response in diseases such as psoriasis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and rheumatoid arthritis. This led, in 2017, to the first trial of Thync in the treatment of psoriasis.

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