Digital Identity in the New Era of Personalized Medicine

Digital Identity has the potential to redefine and redesign the full spectrum of services encompassed in the healthcare industry from clinical care delivery to medical equipment and administrative support services. Within the healthcare ecosystem, digital identity can have a transformative impact on all domains from patient care to healthcare records and health information management systems. The profound impact of deploying digital identity would affect multiple domains and this book highlights the most pertinent such as access, consent, self-sovereignty, portability, longevity, and more. Additionally, it focuses on how digital identity can be a conduit for changing the paradigm from sick- to well care and emphasizes how it can be a catalyst for a personalized precision medicine model of healthcare. The various forms of digital identity will be reviewed, as well as barriers and challenges to a large-scale adoption.

This book addresses the current challenges related to digital identity, digital privacy, data governance, data ownership in healthcare, public health, and life sciences. Society is witnessing an increasing adoption of emerging technologies, however insufficient solutions to maintain privacy, security and ensure self-sovereignty in the global healthcare, public health and life-sciences. This book highlights possible solutions, as well as opportunities and challenges the healthcare is likely to encounter when deploying these solutions. This book will also offer insights into future opportunities for innovation, research, and hybrid deployments of digital identity.