Description
Healthcare delivery today is plagued with numerous challenges such as escalating costs, an aging population with a longer life expectancy, rapid increases in chronic conditions, and more. To address this and deliver a healthcare value proposition of better quality, access, and value to all, it is vital to look to advances in digital solutions. Rapid advances in technology enable the possibility of delivering tailored, personalized, and precise care. This leads to ensuring optimal clinical resources, timely as well as effective, efficient and efficacious care, happier patients, a smarter and supported clinical workforce, and a healthier community.
Digitalization and the Transformation of the Healthcare Sector provides a compilation of critical aspects that collectively serve to underscore the potential digital technologies advances can bring to healthcare delivery. It discusses the potential of e-health and lays out a clear road map and vision for achieving high quality, high value care for all. Covering topics such as 5G technology, metaverse, and telemedicine, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, academicians, clinicians, allied health workers, managers in healthcare, policymakers, graduate and postgraduate students, and more.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Ed.)
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Currently, Professor Wickramasinghe is the inaugural Optus Chair and Professor of Digital Health at La Trobe University . She holds or has held honorary research professor positions at Epworth HealthCare, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Northern Health and Murdoch Children's Research Institute. After completing 5 degrees at the University of Melbourne, she was awarded a full scholarship to complete PhD studies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and later she was sponsored to complete executive education at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in Value-based HealthCare. For over 20 years, Professor Wickramasinghe has been actively, researching and teaching within the health informatics/digital health domain in US, Germany and Australia with a particular focus on designing, developing and deploying suitable models, strategies and techniques grounded in various management principles to facilitate the implementation and adoption of technology solutions to effect superior, value-based patient centric care delivery. Professor Wickramasinghe collaborates with leading scholars at various premier healthcare organizations and universities throughout Australasia, US and Europe and is well published with more than 400 referred scholarly articles, more than 15 books, numerous book chapters, an encyclopaedia and a well established funded research track record securing over $25M in funding from grants in US, Australia, Germany and China as a chief investigator. She holds a patent around analytics solution for managing healthcare data and is the editor-in-chief of Intl J Networking and Virtual Organisations by InderScience as well as series editor of the Springer book series Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age and the CRC Routledge book series Analytics and AI for Healthcare. In 2020 she was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health, the first time this honour has been bestowed to someone in the discipline of Digital Health