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PublisherMcgraw-Hill Education

ISBN-100071849467

ISBN-139780071849463

eBay Product ID (ePID)204042960

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameDigital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age

LanguageEnglish

SubjectClinical Medicine, Knowledge Capital, Physician & Patient

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics, Medical

AuthorRobert Wachter

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-001206

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal610.285

Table Of ContentPreface xi Chapter 1: On Call 1 Chapter 2: Shovel Ready 9 Part One - The Note Chapter 3: The iPatient 23 Chapter 4: The Note 29 Chapter 5: Strangers at the Bedside 35 Chapter 6: Radiology Rounds 47 Chapter 7: Go Live 65 Chapter 8: Unanticipated Consequences 71 Part Two - Decisions and Data Chapter 9: Can Computers Replace the Physician's Brain? 93 Chapter 10: David and Goliath 105 Chapter 11: Big Data 115 Part Three - The Overdose Chapter 12: The Error 127 Chapter 13: The System 131 Chapter 14: The Doctor 135 Chapter 15: The Pharmacist 139 Chapter 16: The Alerts 143 Chapter 17: The Robot 155 Chapter 18: The Nurse 159 Chapter 19: The Patient 165 Part Four - The Connected Patient Chapter 20: OpenNotes 171 Chapter 21: Personal Health Records and Patient Portals 183 Chapter 22: A Community of Patients 195 Part Five - The Players and the Policies Chapter 23: Meaningful Use 205 Chapter 24: Epic and athena 219 Chapter 25: Silicon Valley Meets Healthcare 235 Chapter 26: The Productivity Paradox 243 Part Six - Toward a Brighter Future Chapter 27: A Vision for Health Information Technology 257 Chapter 28: The Nontechnological Side of Making Health IT Work 267 Chapter 29: Art and Science 271 Acknowledgments 281 Notes 285 National Coordinators for Health Information Technology 309 People Interviewed 311 Bibliography 319 Illustration Credits 321 Index 323

SynopsisThe New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America's leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we've pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation's most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don't simply replace my doctor's scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it's not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone - patient and provider alike - who cares about our healthcare system.

LC Classification NumberR858