Patient-Centered Digital Healthcare Technology explores the creative intersection of novel, emerging technologies and medicine. This convergence is transforming the landscape of healthcare with the overarching objectives of improving clinical outcomes and advocating wellness. The concept of encountering or treating a medical condition when it has already become disturbingly manifest is being replaced by earlier awareness, diagnosis, and proactive intervention enabled by technologies.

• Chapter 1: Information systems in health: what do you need and how will you get it?
• Chapter 2: Hybrid usability methods: practical techniques for evaluating health information technology in an operational setting
• Chapter 3: Advancing public health in the age of big data: methods, ethics, and recommendations
• Chapter 4: Preferential hyperacuity perimetry: home monitoring to decrease vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration
• Chapter 5: Incorporating mobile resources to enhance the impact of behavioral health services for suicidal persons
• Chapter 6: The gamification of mental health prevention and promotion
• Chapter 7: Minimally disruptive medicine: how mHealth strategies can reduce the work of diabetes care
• Chapter 8: Innovations in medical robotics: surgery, logistics, disinfection, and telepresence
• Chapter 9: New reality for surgical training and assessment using immersive technologies
• Chapter 10: Applications of blockchain in healthcare
• Chapter 11: A practical introduction to artificial intelligence in medicine
• Chapter 12: Under the hood: developing the engine that drives personalized medicine
• Afterword: The impacts of novel and emerging technologies on a pandemic