Main description:

Pharmaceutical Care in the Digital Revolution, Second Edition provides the reader with an updated view on how to use technology to improve pharmaceutical care (PC) and enhance drug outcomes with digital tools. Organized into four parts, "Global Healthcare Systems Under Pressure," "Digital Advances to Innovate Pharmaceutical Care Journeys," "Conditions to Drive Combinatoric Pharma-Digital Innovation," and "What to do Tomorrow as a Pharmaceutical Care Leader," the book further examines digital developments that will optimize the PC process and to prepare stakeholders in the process for a dynamic future where optimizing the life of patients against a sustainable cost model is fueled by innovation and digital opportunities. This edition also discusses recent advances in the digital health arena that will change the way we approach healthcare and prevention and also provides interactive links to lectures and technologies, tutorials on how to implement advances in your own working environment, and examples of pharmacists who are successful in building synergy between digital and pharma. Pharmaceutical Care in the Digital Revolution, Second Edition is a practical resource to better equip pharmacists in collaboration with physicians, as well as those working in the pharmaceutical care chain, who wish to understand how technological innovation is changing the ecosystem in which we provide pharmaceutical care to patients and what it means for the future profession of pharmacists.

Contents:

Why: Global Healthcare Systems Under Pressure 1. Oxygen Required 2. Innovation Biotopes Required 3. Value Based Healthcare Forestry 4. Outcome-Based Hunting Grounds 5. #patientsincluded (TM) Botany 6. Scenery of Pharmaceutical Care

What: Digital Advances to Innovate Pharmaceutical Care Journeys 7. Abiotic Digital Health Technologies 8. Data Outback of an Internet of (Pharma) Things 9. Jungle of Health Apps 10. Rainforests of Wearables and Insideables 11. Sequoias of Artificial Intelligence 12. Virtual humans as caregiver 13. Personal health application, an integrated platform where all health data are connected 14. Blockchain Taiga 15. Digital Therapeutic Mangroves 16. Digitial Vegetation Beyond 2024

How: Conditions to Drive Combinatoric Pharma-Digital Innovation 17. Healthlands of Digital Health Compliance 18. Ethical Practice: Fostering Trees of Life 19. Educational Biome

How: What to do Tomorrow as a Pharmaceutical Care Leader 20. Digital by Design: Effective Future Oxygen Supply 21. Hayfields of High-Performance Cultural Transformation