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Digitalization in Healthcare

Implementing Innovation and Artificial Intelligence

  • Shows how healthcare sectors use artificial intelligence and digitized applications
  • Presents contemporary and experimental approaches from both, the real-world and academia
  • Discusses opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence and digitalization
  • Shares ideas on how IT-driven solutions could solve long-standing issues in healthcare and hospitalization.

Part of the book series: Future of Business and Finance (FBF)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Digitalization from the Patients’ Perspective

    • Julia Plugmann, Philipp Plugmann
    Pages 43-50
  3. Digitalization in Rehabilitation

    • Pantea Pape
    Pages 51-64
  4. Digitalization in Dentistry

    • Philipp Plugmann
    Pages 65-71
  5. The Radiology of the Future

    • Yaron Rado
    Pages 103-110
  6. Computer Vision Applications in Medical Diagnostics

    • Pascal C. Weinberger
    Pages 123-131
  7. Microservices as Architectural Style

    • Annegret Junker
    Pages 177-190
  8. Digital Pharmacy

    • Tamim Al-Marie
    Pages 201-210
  9. Smart Contracts in Healthcare

    • Michael Schnitzbauer
    Pages 211-223

About this book

Digital technologies are currently dramatically changing healthcare. This book introduces the reader to the latest digital innovations in healthcare in fields such as artificial intelligence, points out new ways in patient care and describes the limits of its application. It also offers essential guidance in the form of structured and authoritative contributions by domain experts spanning from artificial intelligence to hospital management to radiology to dentistry to preventive medicine. Furthermore, it shares ideas and experiences of industry veterans, in particular on how IT-driven solutions could solve long-standing issues in the fields of healthcare and hospitalization. It also gives advice on what new digital technologies to consider for becoming a healthcare market leader in the future. Taken together, these contributions provide a “road map” to guide decision makers, physicians, academics, industry representatives and other interested readers to understand the large impactof digital technology on healthcare today and its enormous potential for future development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

    Patrick Glauner

  • SRH University of Applied Health Science, Leverkusen, Germany

    Philipp Plugmann

  • St. Marien-Hospital GmbH, Cologne, Germany

    Guido Lerzynski

About the editors

Patrick Glauner is the Founder & CEO of skyrocket.ai GmbH, an artificial intelligence consulting firm based in Bavaria, Germany. He is also a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, since age 30. Previously, he was Head of Data Academy at the AI consulting firm Alexander Thamm GmbH, headed the corporate AI competence center at Krones Group and managed AI projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). His works on AI were featured by New Scientist, McKinsey, Imperial College London, Udacity, the Luxembourg National Research Fund and others.


Philipp Plugmann has been doing multidisciplinary work for the last 20 years in parallel to practicing as a dentist in his own clinic in Leverkusen, Germany. He is also Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Periodontology and Prevention at SRH University of Applied Health Sciences. His first book on innovation in medical technology published in 2011 was reviewed byCisco. His second book on innovation published with Springer in 2018 got more than 50,000 chapter downloads in its first fifteen months. Previously, he held multiple adjunct faculty appointments and has won multiple teaching awards. Plugmann has given research talks in the field of innovation at Conferences at Harvard Business School, Berkeley Haas School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Nanyang Tech University, Singapore. Plugmann is a serial entrepreneur and advisor to several companies, including a global technology consultancy - DataArt.

Guido Lerzynski has ten years of experience in the management of acute hospitals. Currently, he is chief executive director of the St. Marien-Hospital Cologne, the St. Marien Ambulatory Care Centre, the Neurological Therapy Centre (NTC) and the private Kuniberts Hospital. He is also an authorised representative of St. Marien Hospital Association. His special interest focuses on the evaluation of outcome measures in acute hospitals. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digitalization in Healthcare

  • Book Subtitle: Implementing Innovation and Artificial Intelligence

  • Editors: Patrick Glauner, Philipp Plugmann, Guido Lerzynski

  • Series Title: Future of Business and Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65896-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65895-3Published: 14 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65898-4Published: 15 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65896-0Published: 13 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2467

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2475

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 295

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: IT in Business, Business and Management, general, Medicine/Public Health, general

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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