The Patient Equation The Data-Driven Future of Precision Medicine and the Business of Health Care

How the data revolution is transforming biotech and healthcare--and why you can't afford to let it pass you byWe are living through a time when the digitization of health and medicine is becoming a reality, with new abilities to improve outcomes for patients as well as the efficiency and succes...

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Autor principal: de Vries, Glen (-)
Otros Autores: Blachman, Jeremy
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated 2020.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009644303706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 From Hippocrates to Epocrates
  • Chapter 1 Before We Cured Scurvy
  • Nanometers to Megameters
  • Scurvy
  • The False Promise of Genotype
  • Your Very Own High‐frequency Medical Device
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 Inside the Equations
  • Like Lions of the Serengeti
  • The Layer Cake
  • Patients Like You, Patients Like Me
  • Changing the Frequency
  • Reverse‐engineering the Critical Layers
  • The Cognitive Dimension
  • Better Measurements at Virtually No Cost
  • From Hypothesis Confirmation to Hypothesis Generation
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 Fitbits, Smart Toilets, and a Bluetooth‐enabled Self‐driving ECG
  • Are Apps the New Snake Oil?
  • Wearables for Panicked Dogs
  • It's the Equations, Not the Devices
  • Let's Start with the Thermostat
  • Notes
  • PART 2 Applying Data to Disease
  • Chapter 4 Ava-Tracking Fertility, on the Road Toward Understanding All of Women's Health
  • Enter Ava
  • The Changing Role of the Patient
  • The Motivation to Comply
  • A Man Who Just Can't Ovulate
  • Finding a Niche in a Crowded Field
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 One Breath, One Drop-Asthma and Diabetes, Chronic Conditions Being Conquered with Technology
  • Out of the Danger Zone
  • Lowering Barriers to Zero
  • A Perfectly Artificial Pancreas
  • Hacking One's Own Device
  • One Drop at a Time
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 Flumoji and Sepsis Watch-Two Approaches to Predicting and Preventing Acute, Life‐threatening Conditions Through Smarter Data
  • Catching Sepsis Earlier
  • Partnering with Doctors, Not Replacing Them
  • Looking Beyond Sepsis
  • Using Crowdsourcing to Track the Flu
  • Stopping the Spread of Illness with Data Is Hard
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7 Cancer and Phage Therapy-Crafting Custom Treatments Just for You
  • Changing the Way We Look at Cancer
  • p53‐ologists of the Future.
  • Or Perhaps Car‐t‐ographers of the Present
  • Personalized Immunotherapy Beyond Cancer
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8 Castleman Disease-Not One RareDisease with NoTreatments, ButThree Rare Diseases. . . with Hope,Thanks to Data
  • Finding Clusters in a Random World
  • Dr. David Fajgenbaum's Quest for a Cure
  • Rare Diseases, Common Problems
  • Notes
  • PART 3 Building Your Own Patient Equations
  • Chapter 9 The Steam Table
  • Progressing Toward Alzheimer's Disease...or Maybe Not
  • When the Measurement and the Therapy Are One and the Same
  • Steam Tables for Cancer
  • The Data Problem
  • From Wellness to Illness-and Back Again
  • Notes
  • Chapter 10 Good Data
  • The Failure of Watson
  • The Mars Climate Orbiter
  • The Progression to Value
  • Notes
  • Chapter 11 Changing Clinical Trials
  • Expanding Access to Trials
  • Pharma's Lack of Connection to Clinical Care
  • Truly Patient‐centric Trials
  • Accepting New Kinds of Data
  • Unshackling the Clinical Trial
  • Enter Thomas Bayes
  • Breaking the Barrier
  • Synthetic Control Arms
  • Our Synthetic Control Model
  • Making Every Trial an Adaptive Trial
  • A Stroke of Insight
  • Notes
  • Chapter 12 Disease Management Platforms
  • The Promise of Mobile Apps
  • Digital from the Beginning
  • But It's Not That Easy
  • Where That Leaves Us
  • Notes
  • PART 4 Scaling Progress to the World
  • Chapter 13 The Importance of Collaboration
  • A Tiny Island or a Larger Ecosystem
  • How Data Collaboration Can Change the Game
  • Notes
  • Chapter 14 Value‐based Reimbursement
  • Beyond Survival
  • The (Mathematical) Fountain of Youth
  • Money‐back Guarantee
  • Making Value‐based Care the Future
  • Notes
  • Chapter 15 Aligning Incentives
  • Human Doctors, Digital Doctors
  • Respecting the Unquantifiable
  • Empowered Patients
  • Notes
  • Chapter 16 And Then, a Pandemic
  • Phase Diagrams Revisited.
  • Steam Tables, Sensors, and Early Warning Systems
  • Putting a Spotlight on the Fragility of Our System
  • A Speedier Road to Modernized Trial Design
  • The Next Hundred Years
  • Notes
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Index
  • EULA.