Accelerating Strategic Changes for Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry discusses innovative conceptual frameworks, tools and solutions to tackle the challenges of mitigating major disruption caused by COVID-19 in the healthcare sector and society. It emphasizes global case studies and empirical studies, providing a comprehensive view of best lessons on digital tools to manage the health crisis. The book focuses on the role of advances in digital and collaborative technologies to offer rapid and effective tools for better health solutions for new and emerging health problems. Researchers, students, policymakers and members of the biomedical and medical fields will find this information invaluable. Specially, it pays attention to how information technologies help us in the current global health emergency and the coronavirus epidemic response, gaining more understanding of the new coronavirus and helping to contain the outbreak. In addition, it explores how these new tools and digital health solutions can support the economic and social recovery in the post-pandemic world.

Section I. The impact of covid-19 in healthcare industry: Challenges and trends 1. Impact of Covid-19 on healthcare in Qatar:  Initiation and operations of the Urgent Consultation Centre (UCC) hotline, virtual transformation of healthcare services, and accelerated data sharing solutions - Challenges and opportunities 2. Challenges, innovation opportunities and lessons learned from a prolonged organisational crisis: a case exemplar of the National Health Service Wales 3. Accelerating Pathology Education through Virtual Learning to Address Global Health Needs

Section II. Digital transformation of healthcare services 4. Mobile Health Apps: User's Perception Towards m-Health Apps and Their Adoption Intentions 5. Balancing Patient empowerment and online security considerations from impact of Social Media Promotion of Prescription Drugs: Physician Perception 6. Online health communication during COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of hospitals with social media presence in India 7. Development and usability testing of an air disinfection robot to reduce air clearance times following aerosol generating procedures (AGPs)

Section III. AI and Internet of the Things in healthcare industry 8. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare 9. Artificial Intelligence based Brain Hemorrhage Detection 10. A systems approach to implementing ethics in a COVID-19 AI application: a qualitative study 11. Automation of depression detection in texts to identify possible cases during COVID-19 pandemic 12. Review of Using Machine Learning in Secure IoT Healthcare

Section IV. Data sharing for accelerating solutions in healthcare industry 13. Health infrastructure, Data sharing and Strategic Changes for Innovative Transformation of Health Services: Evolution of Call Center Patient Appointment Registration for Comprehensive Urology Services in Qatar 14. Heterogeneous Cardiological Data Communication in Telecardiology with Music-Key Generation Scheme

Section V. Health emergency preparedness and response 15. Early warning for emerging infectious disease outbreaks- Digital disease surveillance for public health preparedness and response

Section VI. Conclusions and implications for healthcare research agenda and policy makers 16. Digital Health Policies and Participation for Digital Transformation in the German-speaking Area - A Critical Approach 17. Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges of Digital Mental Health Care