Digital health utilizes technology to enhance healthcare delivery and make medicine more personalized. It represents a shift from reactive sick-care to proactive health-care. Technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, digital medicines, and mobile health apps have the potential to disrupt healthcare processes and workflows by combining human and artificial intelligence. However, risks around privacy and security must be addressed for digital health to reach its full potential of improving patient outcomes.

1. Digital Health
How technology is changing the
way we manage our health
Adriano Fontanari Trento, 5 April 2019

2. Wha is Digital Health?
Digital health is the
convergence of digital
technologies with health,
healthcare, living, and society
to enhance the efficiency of
healthcare delivery and make
medicines more personalized
and precise. (Wikipedia)
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3. From Sick-care to Health-care
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A paradigm shift
Reactive Medicine
Proactive Medicine

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Status Quo
▹ Opportunity: Digital Health

5. 70-80%
Percentage of spending to treat chronic diseases in
developed countries
22€Digital health per capita investment in Italy, 60€ of the UK
and 40€ of France
39,9%Percentage of the italian population that suffer from at least one chronic
disease, 20,9% suffer from at least two.
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Disruptive?

7. The introduction of a healthcare innovation
involves
Tools
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People
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Processes
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Workflow
Users & Healthcare
Professionals Technology (eg. AI)

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AR & VR
Potential: disruption of the medical education and clinical
practice

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Virtual Reality: practical case
Problem
The majority of children are worried to undergo tests and
painful medical procedures, and often they refuse them.
Solution
Virtual reality game to support children with less
medications, while involving parents and supporting the
work of the doctors

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Fields of application:
▹ Pediatric cancer
▹ Dentistry visit
▹ Allergy test
▹ First aid & Orthopedics
▹ ADHD

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AI: self-diagnosis?
▹ > 1 M users
▹ > 3,5 M photos
analysed
▹ > 27K skin cancer
found

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AI: self-diagnosis?
Symptoms checkerX-ray reader
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Dr. Google
In 2018, two of three (66%) italians used
internet to research health information

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Mental Health - Google

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Digital Medicine
▹ Pill with an ingestible
sensor
▹ Patch
▹ App + Platform

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Biohacking
Pancreas Artificiale (OpenAPS)

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Risks

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Gamification + Insurance
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ECG on your wrist?

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Counseling + Community + Chatbot
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Digital Therapeutics
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Coaching
Blood pressure

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Blockchain
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Personal data & Fight counterfeit drugs

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The future of Care
From Hospital to Home Care
Virtual Hospital One-stop clinic
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25. ”
“COMBINING THE POWER OF HUMANS
AND MACHINES—INTELLIGENCE BOTH
HUMAN AND ARTIFICIAL—WOULD TAKE
MEDICINE TO AN UNPRECEDENTED
LEVEL.”
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Dr. Eric Topol

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Empathy: The Human
Connection to Patient Care

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Adriano Fontanari
Digital Health Innovation
@adryhealth
StarShip
Innovation Fellow
Co-founder (Project)
Contributor | Ambassador

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