Intro -- The Digital Pill -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Will the Healthcare System Become aVictim of its Own Success? -- Chapter 1: Medical Progress is a Success Story that Comes with Consequences -- More Years -- To Suffer Ill Health? -- Medical Progress also Means New Challenges -- Economic Consequences -- Demographic Consequences -- Chapter 2: Non-communicable Diseases are Straining Our Healthcare System -- Non-communicable Diseases: Human Suffering and High Costs

Diabetes Epidemic in China -- Cardiovascular Disease in Mexico -- Chapter 3: Digitalization Will Be a Key Success Factor for the Healthcare System of the Future -- Preventive Health Care in Ancient China -- A Historic Model -- Preventive Dental Medicine in Sweden -- A Contemporary Model -- Health Promotion Board in Singapore -- Healthy Diet and Preventive General Medicine in Spain -- Digitalization is Essential to Tomorrow's Medicine -- Digitalization Supports Behavioral Change -- Digitalization Boosts Efficiency -- Digitalization Democratizes Medicine -- Digitalization Improves Quality

Digitalization Accelerates Medical Research -- Part II: Digital Technologies are Changing Patients and Healthcare Systems -- Chapter 4: Do-it-Yourself Medicine -- DIY Research -- Self-help and Self-diagnosis -- Sharing Between (Expert) Patients -- PatientsLikeMe -- Health Unlocked -- Continuous Patient Self-monitoring -- Quantified Self -- Do-it-yourself Tests -- Urine Test by Healthy.io -- Stool Sample Test by Viome and DayTwo -- Genetic Testing by Color Genomics -- The limits of Do-it-yourself -- Citizen Scientists -- Chapter 5: The Digital Doctor-Patient Relationship

Selecting, Making Appointments with, and Reviewing Doctors Online -- Practo -- DocPlanner -- Online Consultation -- Chunyu Yisheng -- Digital Physician Assistant -- Enlitic -- Arterys -- RADLogics -- Wlycloud -- MedScape -- Online Pharmacies -- Digital One-stop Platforms -- Unstaffed Mini-clinics -- Chapter 6: Digital Therapeutics -- Digital Personal Coach -- mySugr -- Meru Health -- Propeller Health -- Kaia Health -- Magic Leap -- Akili Interactive Labs -- Mindmaze -- Digital Therapeutics by Prescription -- Pear Therapeutics -- Evidation Health -- Digital Adherence Coach

Proteus Digital Health -- Chapter 7: Digital Health Data and Data Security -- Health Data as a Strategic Asset -- A Brief History of Health Data -- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) as the Core of Health Data -- Omics Data -- Self-monitoring Data -- Exponential Growth in Data Volume -- Collecting, Processing, and Analyzing Data -- Data Collection -- The Problem with Distributed Incompatible Data -- Transforming Data into Medical Knowledge -- Primary and Secondary Use of Health Data -- Digital biomarkers -- Managing Privacy, Security, and Ethical Concerns -- Data security