Digital Health

Dipu Patel is the vice chair for Innovation in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies. She has clinical experience in emergency medicine, urgent care, and hematology/oncology, and has served on several boards including the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Physician Assistants. She has developed and taught a wide array of courses that speak to clinical diagnosis and reasoning, evidence-based medicine, health policy, physical exam and history taking, classroom technology, and professional development. Prior to joining the Department of PA Studies, she served as director of Clinical Pathways at a healthcare technology startup, where she led a team of global clinicians to assure that each clinical pathway is provider-driven and patient-centered. Incorporating clinical skills and knowledge with new technology that enhances patient education and advocacy is what drives her work. Her scholarly interests include healthcare innovation, technology, and workforce development.

Introduction

Foreword
John Nosta

1. Digital Health: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Medicine
Dipu Patel

2. Diagnosing the Future: The Roles of Artificial Intelligence in the Forthcoming Medical Epoch
Mark DiMauro and Marty Rosenheck

3. AI in Medical Education: Challenges and Opportunities
Marty Rosenheck

Digital Medicine in Practice

4. Telemedicine: History, Foundation, and Clinical Implementation
Mercedes Dodge and Kathryn Werner

5. Beyond the Wrist: Wearables in Healthcare
Hina Mazharuddin

6. mHealth
Stefan Buttigieg

7. Looking Ahead: The Future of Electronic Health Records
Emily Lewis

8. Bridging the Gap: Empowering Patients with Health Apps
Tom Micklewright

9. Remote Patient Monitoring
Lisa Shock

10. From Data to Diagnosis: The Power of Precision Medicine in Digital Health
Josh Borgstadt and Dipu Patel

11. Hospital to Home: Bridging the Gap with Personalized Medicine
Harvey Castro and Dipu Patel

12. Robot-Assisted Surgery: Past, Present, and Future
Jessica Grasso

13. Understanding Digital Therapeutics
Agnes Compagnone and Rachel Cole

14. Digital Therapeutics: A New Era of Technology for Treatment
Whitney Stewart

15. Digital Health and the Future of Primary Care
Dipu Patel and Amit Dey

16. Integrating Digital Medicine in Rural Communities
Susan McDiarmid and Sonia Otte

Billing and Coding
17. Coding for Telehealth/CMS guidelines
Aditi Joshi

18. ICD10 and SNOMED CT: The Role of Healthcare Classification Systems in Digital Health
Sara Gallo

Legal and Ethical Issues
19. Digital Health Law
Jeremy Sherer and Amy Joseph

20. Use and Reuse of Data: Access, Ownership, Value, and Trust
Danny Van Roijen

21. Ethical Issues for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Derek Leben

22. Health Policy
Kathryn Reed, Nathan Miracle, Amy Brown, and Christine Rodgers

23. Regulatory Considerations
Mona Kelley and Caitlin Kelley

Research

24. Navigating Data Quality in the Digital Health Era: Validation, Verification, and IRB
Christina Davis, Jeff Cooper, and Dave Beck

25. Healthcare, Trials, and Digital Impact
Samarth Kashyap and Shambhavi Singh

Where To Now?

26. Future Trends
Arta Bakshandeh

27. Battling Misinformation
Michael Smith and Chelsea Backer

28. Educating the Next Generation in Digital Medicine
Vanessa Bester and Eric Van Hecke

29. Classroom Best Practices
Carlos Gutierrez, Sarah Bolander, Stephanie Jalaba, and Ryan Kingsley

30. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Classroom
Carlos Gutierrez, Sarah Bolander, Stephanie Jalaba, and Ryan Kingsley

31. Student Perspective: Doctorate of Physician Assistant Studies: Digital Health Initiatives
Allison Bakowicz and Megan Gallagher

32. Student Perspective: From Education to Practice
Dua Abbas

33. Student Perspective: Interpreting the Future: Navigating the Tele-Revolution in Healthcare Language Access
Muhiyadin Aden

34. Organizational Perspectives
Amy Haller and Ben Reynolds

35. Patient perspectives
Debra Ruh