The Digital Doctor

According to the World Health Organization, digital health is a rapidly advancing science which is becoming increasingly employed for use in pattern recognition and mechanistic/disease classification within the medical field. In contrast to digital health incorporation within the industrial field, there remains large research gaps preventing the immediate application of digital health in medicine.The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare discusses in detail the digital health and demonstrate the appropriateness of each technology using an evidence-based approach. It serves as a comprehensive summary on the current evidence-based digital health applications, future novel digital health technology (e.g., mobile health, blockchain, web3.0), as well as some of the current challenges and future directions for digital health within the various medical subspecialties. This book is a comprehensive review of digital health for clinicians, researchers, bioinformatic students, biomedical engineers interested in this topic. Provides a history and overview of the various modalities of digital health and their application within each field of medicine as narrated by leading expertsDiscusses current digital health-based medical research including landmark trials within each field of medicineAddresses current knowledge gaps that clinicians commonly face, which prevent the application of digital health-based research to clinical practiceProvides examples of specific cases, and discusses challenges and biases associated with digital health