Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Health.- Chapter 2: Overview of the Digital Health Ecosystem.- Chapter 3: Diabetes and the Telcare Solution (Jonathan Javitt, Telcare).- Chapter 4: Cooperation in Aging Services Technologies.- Chapter 5: The Quantified Self, Wearables, and the Tracking Revolution.- Chapter 6: Beyond Silos to Data Analytics for Population Health: Case Study of HealthBank and Citizen Coops for Health Data Transactions.- Chapter 7: Healthcare Lessons From the Telecommunications Sector (Sven Schuchardt, Detecon).- Chapter 8: Smart Healthy Cities: Public-Private Partnerships, a Case From Telefonica in Brazil [Jody Ranck, Katia Galvane (Telefonica), Washington Tavares (ISPM)].- Chapter 9: Smart Digital Health Policies (Ticia Gerber, HL7).- Chapter 10: Cooperation for Building Secure Standards for Health Data (Cem Senturk, Detecon).- Chapter 11: Peer to Peer Platforms for Physicians in Underserved Areas: A Human Rights Approach to Social Media in Medicine: The Case of Tabeeb (Osama Alshaykh).

About the Author

Jody Ranck is an Analyst for Gigaom Research who has a career in health, development and innovation spanning over 20 years. His current work has emphasized global health, innovation and social media in public health. He is currently on the executive team of the mHealth Alliance at the UN Foundation and consults with a number of organizations such as IntraHealth, Cisco, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Gigaom, the Qatar Foundation International, the Public Health Institute on ehealth and innovation strategies in global health.. He was also involved as a convenor of the Rockefeller Foundation’s work in eHealth and mobile health through the 2008 Bellagio Summit. His previous work has included work in post-genocide Rwanda, risk and new biotechnologies (Rockefeller Foundation), work at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and leading the Global Health practice and Health Horizons at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA. He has a doctorate in Health Policy and Administration from UC Berkeley as well as an MA in International Relations and Economics (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS), and a BA in biology from Ithaca College. Some of his honors have included a Fulbright Fellowship (Bangladesh) and serving as a Rotary Fellow in Tunisia (Arabic and Islamic History).