This essential book reviews how digital health ventures can be integrated with more traditional techniques to revolutionize the healthcare system. Details of the current state of the digital marketplace, the available tools for early detection and diagnostics that presently employ digital technologies are provided. Relevant aspects of blockchain, artificial intelligence including data lake development and data analytics are described. The role of regulators and legislation including GDPR are also covered. Hybrid Healthcare provides a thorough overview of how digital health entrepreneurs will need to employ a hybrid approach to address many healthcare challenges of the 21st century. It is therefore an indispensable resource for all those seeking to develop their knowledge of this rapidly growing sector.

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Dr. Razouki has over 19 years of experience in venture capital and private equity investment with a focus on healthcare and technology, shifting from an excellence in clinical practice and research to the management and financing of healthcare and education systems. A graduate of Columbia Business School, Dr. Razouki received an MBA with a focus on Healthcare Management and Finance. Dr. Razouki is a member of the Hermes Honors Society of Columbia Business School, an honor bestowed on to the top global alumni of the university. An Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon by training, Dr. Razouki has completed clinical rotations at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University Medical Center, Harlem Hospital, Cleveland University Hospital of Case Western Reserve University and Mass General Hospital of Harvard University. Dr. Razouki graduated with Cum Laude Honors from Creighton University with a Bachelors in Biology (Ethology) and TPP (Theology, Philosophy and Political Science).

Sophie Smith is the Founder and CEO of Nabta Health (2017 - present), a hybrid healthcare platform for women, empowering women in emerging markets to detect, diagnose and treat non-communicable diseases. Smith is credited with coining the term "hybrid healthcare" and conceptualising the hybrid healthcare model, which builds on principles of integrated care through the application of three core concepts: patient centricity, augmented intelligence, and decentralisation.

Smith has 11 years of industry experience as a technologist and serial impact entrepreneur. Prior to founding Nabta, Smith worked for Accenture as a technology consultant for 4 years and then founded several impact startups over 3 years including myZindagi (a doctor-finding platform based in Pakistan) and Le Plastics (a plastic recycling company based in Sierra Leone). Smith's lifetime ambition is to make healthcare affordable and accessible for all women.

Smith read History at the University of Cambridge (2007 - 2010) and completed an MBA with Quantic School of Business and Technology (2018).

Inhalt

Introduction: What is Hybrid Healthcare?.- Health is a Gift, Medicine is an Art, but Healthcare is a Business.- Antiquity - The Evolution of Modern Medicine.- Modern Medicine 1.0 - Why Healthcare Remains Broken Post WWII.- Health 2.0 - The Rise of Digital Technologies in Healthcare.- Digital Marketplaces.- B2C - Finding a Doctor Nearest to You.- B2B - The Rise and Fall of Practice Fusion.- B2G .- C2C - Patient Support Groups.- Digital Diagnostics and Therapeutics.- Early Detection and Diagnosing At Scale - Altoida and Alzheimer's.- Priming.- Viral Vector Drugs.- Retail Medicine.- Current Examples.- Experimental Models.- Future Models.- Genetic Therapy.- Archaic Splicing: Vivisection.- The Modern Era and the DNA Double Helix.- Early Attempts at Gene editing: Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) and Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases (TALENs).- CRISPRs/Cas-9.- Other Experimental Models of Gene Therapy.- Cloud Biology.- Precision Medicine.- Uploading Your Genetic Code.- Downloading Therapies.- Digital Storage of Genetic Material.- Who Owns the Data?.- Artificial Intelligence.- Machine Learning.- Developing a Data Lake.- AI Triage and Treatment.- Blockchain.- Introduction to the Blockchain.- Blockchain in Healthcare Provision: Creating Value.- Ownership of the Distributed Ledger.- Regulating the Blockchain.- Communicating Via the Blockchain.- Robotic Surgery.- Hybrid Clinical Research.- Sourcing Participants.- Payment Models.- Accelerating Data Collection and Analysis.- Privacy in Hybrid Healthcare.- Your online profile.- HIPAA vs. GDPR.- The Role of Regulators.- Future Directions.