Digitalization in Healthcare

Digital technologies are currently dramatically changing healthcare. This book introduces the reader to the latest digital innovations in healthcare in fields such as artificial intelligence, points out new ways in patient care and describes the limits of its application. It also offers essential guidance in the form of structured and authoritative contributions by domain experts spanning from artificial intelligence to hospital management to radiology to dentistry to preventive medicine. Furthermore, it shares ideas and experiences of industry veterans, in particular on how IT-driven solutions could solve long-standing issues in the fields of healthcare and hospitalization. It also gives advice on what new digital technologies to consider for becoming a healthcare market leader in the future. Taken together, these contributions provide a “road map” to guide decision makers, physicians, academics, industry representatives and other interested readers to understand the large impactof digital technology on healthcare today and its enormous potential for future development.

Patrick Glauner is the Founder & CEO of skyrocket.ai GmbH, an artificial intelligence consulting firm based in Bavaria, Germany. He is also a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, since age 30. Previously, he was Head of Data Academy at the AI consulting firm Alexander Thamm GmbH, headed the corporate AI competence center at Krones Group and managed AI projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). His works on AI were featured by New Scientist, McKinsey, Imperial College London, Udacity, the Luxembourg National Research Fund and others.

Philipp Plugmann has been doing multidisciplinary work for the last 20 years in parallel to practicing as a dentist in his own clinic in Leverkusen, Germany. He is also Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Periodontology and Prevention at SRH University of Applied Health Sciences. His first book on innovation in medical technology published in 2011 was reviewed byCisco. His second book on innovation published with Springer in 2018 got more than 50,000 chapter downloads in its first fifteen months. Previously, he held multiple adjunct faculty appointments and has won multiple teaching awards. Plugmann has given research talks in the field of innovation at Conferences at Harvard Business School, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Nanyang Tech University, Singapore. Plugmann is a serial entrepreneur and advisor to several companies, including a global technology consultancy - DataArt.

Guido Lerzynski has ten years of experience in the management of acute hospitals. Currently, he is chief executive director of the St. Marien-Hospital Cologne, the St. Marien Ambulatory Care Centre, the Neurological Therapy Centre (NTC) and the private Kuniberts Hospital. He is also an authorised representative of St. Marien Hospital Association. His special interest focuses on the evaluation of outcome measures in acute hospitals.