Abstract
Non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and lead to high health economic burden. Digital health interventions are appropriate means to support the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases. Digital health interventions rely on information and communication technologies and allow medical doctors and other caregivers to scale and tailor long-term treatments to individuals in need at sustainable costs. This chapter provides an overview of digital health interventions and how they are linked to a connected ecosystem of various health-care actors. Thereby opportunities for these actors and digital health interventions are outlined, and further practical cases of digital health interventions are discussed.
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A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another.
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Several passages of this chapter were taken from the habilitation thesis of Tobias Kowatsch submitted to the School of Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, in January 2021.
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Kowatsch, T., Fleisch, E. (2021). Digital Health Interventions. In: Gassmann, O., Ferrandina, F. (eds) Connected Business. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76897-3_4
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