Mapping the Digital Healthcare Revolution

TL;DR

This chapter introduces a comprehensive review of digital healthcare, exploring opportunities, risks, and interdisciplinary strategies to ensure responsible and sustainable deployment of innovations across various fields.

Contribution

It provides an interdisciplinary overview of digital healthcare's opportunities and risks, proposing strategies for responsible implementation.

Findings

Identifies key opportunities and risks in digital healthcare

Highlights the importance of interdisciplinary approaches

Suggests strategies for sustainable deployment

Abstract

This introductory chapter briefly outlines the main theme of this volume, namely, to review the new opportunities and risks of digital healthcare from various disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives include law, public policy, organisational studies, and applied ethics. Based on this interdisciplinary approach, we hope that effective strategies may arise to ensure that benefits of this on-going revolution are deployed in a responsible and sustainable manner. The second part of the chapter comprises a brief review of the four parts and fourteen substantive chapters that comprise this volume.