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Digital Health Interventions

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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.

Keywords

  • Digital health interventions
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Digital health innovation

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A non-communicable disease (NCD) is a disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another.

  2. 2.

    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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