A brief examination of how new and advanced technologies can change the world of medicine for the better. Future care is virtual care: sensor-aided, digitally enabled, and powered by predictive analytics. Like most facets of modern life, human organs, too, are being digitally monitored. Sensors are well on their way to helping us proactively capture the information needed to predict and prevent disease. Paired with the medical world's growing emphasis on wellness and prevention, the digital revolution will help us effectively monitor and address the chronic diseases that have been the Achilles' heel of the health care system to date. This large-scale transition is not only going to reshape the patient-physician relationship but also dramatically change how hospitals and the business of medicine operate. -- Publisher's website.

Our big, fat, sick health care system: the need for change -- Part I: Sensors -- Making sense of sensors -- Doc-in-the-box -- The failing heart, the dying patient, and implantable sensors -- The smartwatch era -- Continuous care and novel sensors: a recipe for health -- Part II: Virtual care -- Telehealth: fad or here to stay? -- Are we breaking the bank? -- The deepening divide -- Digital privacy - an oxymoron? -- Part III: Artificial intelligence -- Demystifying AI -- Creating the AI culture -- Lazy, stupid, biased, or smarter? -- Predicting and preventing death -- Fixes, failures, and the future -- Part IV: Making our system sustainable -- The value proposition and incentivizing change -- Choosing the right path -- Future models of care -- Hospital of the future.