Digital Doctor

Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Medical Informatics

The Digital Doctor: How Digital Health Can Transform Healthcare discusses digital health and demonstrates the appropriateness of each technology using an evidence-based approach. It serves as a comprehensive summary on current, evidence-based digital health applications, future novel digital health technologies (e.g., mobile health, blockchain, web3.0), as well as some of the current challenges and future directions for digital health within the various medical subspecialties. This book is a comprehensive review of digital health for clinicians, researchers, bioinformatic students, biomedical engineers interested in this topic.

Contents

Provides a history and overview of the various modalities of digital health and their application within each field of medicine as narrated by leading experts

Discusses current digital health-based medical research, including landmark trials within each field of medicine

Addresses current knowledge gaps that clinicians commonly face that often prevent the application of digital health-based research to clinical practice

Provides examples of specific cases and discusses challenges and biases associated with digital health