Digital Pill

Elgar Fleisch co-founded the Center for Digital Health Interventions at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on creating and testing technologies and business models for digital therapeutics. His center works in close cooperation with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, United States, and the Future Health Technologies Center in Singapore.Christoph Franz is Honorary Professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and pushes several digital life science projects in the framework of his role as Chairman of Roche/Genentech.Andreas Herrmann has spent many years studying the decision-making behaviour of individuals, particularly the influence of technologies for supporting decisions made by individuals.

• PART 1: Will the healthcare system become a victim of its own success?Chapter 1. Medical progress is a success story that comes with consequences; Chapter 2. Non-communicable diseases are overtaxing our healthcare system;Chapter 3. Digitalization will be a key success factor for the healthcare system of the future;PART 2: Digital technologies are changing patients and healthcare systemsChapter 4. Do-it-yourself medicine;Chapter 5. The digital doctor-patient relationship;Chapter 6. Digital therapeutics;Chapter 7. Digital health data and data security;Chapter 8. Value-based Medicine;Chapter 9. Digital drug development;PART 3: The five pillars of the healthcare system of tomorrowChapter 10. Re-allocation of roles: Patients gain power – and responsibility;Chapter 11. Digital health data & infrastructure:Data donation is the new blood drive;Chapter 12. Precision medicine:The pill just for me;Chapter 13. Focus on results & transparency:Payment on delivery;Chapter 14. Preventive medicine:Prevention is better than cure;