Accelerating Strategic Changes for Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry

Accelerating Strategic Changes for Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry discusses innovative conceptual frameworks, tools and solutions to tackle the challenges of mitigating major disruption caused by COVID-19 in the healthcare sector and society. It emphasizes global case studies and empirical studies, providing a comprehensive view of best lessons on digital tools to manage the health crisis. The book focuses on the role of advances in digital and collaborative technologies to offer rapid and effective tools for better health solutions for new and emerging health problems. Researchers, students, policymakers and members of the biomedical and medical fields will find this information invaluable.

Specially, it pays attention to how information technologies help us in the current global health emergency and the coronavirus epidemic response, gaining more understanding of the new coronavirus and helping to contain the outbreak. In addition, it explores how these new tools and digital health solutions can support the economic and social recovery in the post-pandemic world.

• Discusses best experiences, tools and solutions provided by IT to solve the global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in societies, healthcare infrastructures and health workers
• Presents case studies with experiences of applications of digital healthcare solutions from around the world
• Encompasses the point of views of renown researchers and academics globally that are working collaboratively to explore new views and frameworks to develop solutions for emergent problems in the healthcare sector

Patricia de Pablos is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Her field of research focuses on knowledge management, healthcare sector, innovation, information technologies and technological disruption. She has contributed to numerous academic publications. She has wide editorial experience in journals, books and book series. She serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Asian Business and Information and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management.

Dr. Xi Zhang’s research interests are knowledge management systems, digital transformation, and people analytics. He has published several papers in international journals such as Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of MIS, CHB, IEEE TEM, IEEE TKDE, etc. He also served as editorial board of IJABIM, IJSWIS, JMSE and JSTPM.