Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society proofs the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for healthcare sector. It shares crucial knowledge about best experiences, tools and solutions provided by IT to solve the global disruption caused the pandemic in societies, healthcare infrastructures and health workers as well as for preparedness for future pandemics and global disruption. In 9 sections the reader is provided with case studies and experiences not only from Asia-Pacific and Europe, but also from other regions (Africa, Latin America, Gulf Region and USA), innovative, new and emerging topics in the field of digital healthcare, digital inclusion and citizen empowerment, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and experiences in post-COVID scenario and recommendations for policy makers around the world. This book gives insight to Researchers, clinicians, CEOs and policymakers who need to learn from the failures and successes and exploit the potential of advanced information technologies to build stronger healthcare systems, and better quality healthcare services.

• Shows the urgent need to understand the potential of advanced IT for healthcare sector
• Gives insight in the successes and failures during pandemics
• Exploits the potential of AI, big data and knowledge management to provide better healthcare services and more digital inclusion of citizen •Includes study cases in the field of IT and digital health during the pandemic and analyses lesson learned