[Wiley] The Future Of Health: How Digital Technology Will Make Care Accessible, Sustainable, And Hum

Digital has already drastically changed our lives in areas from music, food, travel television and even social relationships. Health is also now experiencing a strong influence from the digital realm, which will change our way of thinking about healthcare and how we approach it. The recent past has already brought on changes to health that can be considered disruptive, and it will be even more so in the near future Yet, thanks to technology, disruption will also have a very positive face, as health services will also become more humane, reintroducing a level of empathy that almost disappeared from the field of medicine in the last century. In the area of devices we have gone from heavy and very expensive laptops with computing capabilities that would be considered ridiculous by todays standards, to extremely powerful handheld computers, smartphones, tablets, wearable devices and this process is continuing with the ever increasing levels of miniaturization and afdability. We are now reaching a point where medical devices are becoming so small that, in some cases, they are designed to be swallowed