Digital disruption in healthcare is generating new technologies, applications, and large data sets, and these are all precipitating significant changes in healthcare processes. Emerging applications due to digital disruption and their impact on healthcare delivery and quality are becoming some of the key focus areas of research. However, to date, systematic, generalizable, full-scale evaluation of these new technologies/applications is lacking. Little is known about the net short- or long-term health and wellness impacts of digital technologies. Similarly, the care-delivery and management process changes caused by digital disruption are forcing healthcare organizations to react rather than plan for them in advance. Given these gaps, this book addresses the technology, applications, data, and process aspects of digital disruption in healthcare.

This volume is a collection of key areas in health and wellness impacted by digital disruption. It highlights the benefits, barriers, facilitators, and transformative forces that are shaping healthcare digital disruption. Topics explored in the chapters include:

• Towards Network Medicine: Implementation of Panomics and Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine
• Telehealth Implementation: A Synopsis of Patients' Experience of Clinical Outcomes
• Realising the Healthcare Value Proposition of Better Access, Quality and Value of Care by Incorporating the Social Determinants of Health with Digital Health
• The Internet Hospital in the Time of COVID-19: An Example from China 

Given the diverse interest in healthcare delivery solutions today, the need is broad across academia and the healthcare industry for a comprehensive resource for teaching, practice, and research. Digital Disruption in Healthcare is a point-of-entry resource for transferring theory into practice for heads of IT departments in hospitals, consultants, and academia, as well as scholars and researchers. Both graduate and undergraduate students as well as certificate-seeking health informatics and public health students would benefit from this book. Furthermore, it is useful for healthcare stakeholders including healthcare professionals, clinicians, medical administrators, managers, consultants, policy-makers, and IT practitioners within the healthcare space.


Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD, is an active leader in designing and developing health informatics content in 3 continents for many years. Her simultaneous appointments in Melbourne, Australia at the Swinburne University of Technology where she is the Professor of Digital Health and Deputy Director of the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute as well as Epworth Healthcare where she is Professor and Director of Health Informatics Management have given her unique access to both medical research and education at Epworth Health as well business applications of HCIS at the Swinburne University of Technology. Her research interests focus on the design, development, and deployment of successful digital health solutions to support high-value patient-centered wellness and care delivery. She is the recipient of the 2020 prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health. 
Suresh Chalasani, PhD, is a professor of management information systems at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Prior to joining UW-Parkside, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Chalasani's teaching and research interests include healthcare management and healthcare information systems. Suresh received a number of research and teaching awards including the UW MBA Consortium's Outstanding Faculty Award and UW-P's Stella Gray Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a senior member of IEEE and received research and teaching grants from the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin System. Dr. Chalasani's educational background includes a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California and a Master of Engineering degree in automation from the Indian Institute of Science. Elliot Sloane, PhD, is a practitioner, researcher, and educator in the Clinical Engineering and MIS fields. He is the Emeritus Co-Chair of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International (IHE) standards organization, and he has over 40 years of experience in healthcare technology management and HCIS, serving hospitals, government agencies around the globe, and manufacturers. His pre-academic experiences as a CIO, CTO, and CRO in the healthcare industry focused on patient safety, healthcare technology management, and privacy and security. That background fuels and informs his passion for research, education, teaching, and practice in the HCIS field.