The Digital Transformation of the Healthcare System

This book examines how the digital revolution has reorganized the model of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for a continued paradigm shift to digital healthcare.
Katarzyna Kolasa sets the vision of healthcare 5.0 that relieves the burden on limited healthcare resources and creates better health outcomes by switching the focus from treatment to prediction and prevention. She advocates for a patient-centric ecosystem that empowers patients to take control of their health via new knowledge-based technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS), nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and digital therapeutics.
Highlighting the mindset shift needed to transform healthcare and outlining in detail a futuristic vision of healthcare 5.0, this book will be of interest to academics and professionals of health policy, health economics and digital health.

Katarzyna Kolasa is the founder of the first Master's program in Health Economics and Big Data (HEBDA), the first edition of which was financed by EU Power Grant 2018. In partnership with the Polish Medical Research Agency, Deloitte Digital and the Polish Central Hospital of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, she established the first Digital Health Start Me Up, a half-year introduction program into digital health dedicated to startups and healthcare experts. She is also the founder of the Global Special Interest Group Digital Health at ISPOR. Passionate about Big Data, Katarzyna led the first project of machine learning adaptation for the optimal allocation of CT scanners granted by the Polish Ministry of Health.

1.The birth of the healthcare system. 2.Changes in the healthcare organization to prepare for the digital era. 3. How to change the mindset to embrace opportunities of the digital revolution in healthcare? 4.Are we ready for healthcare 5.0? 5.Case study. Concluding remarks