The digital doctor hope, hype, and harm at the dawn of medicine's computer age
For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills, yet medicine stubbornly resisted computerization-- until now. Thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Wachter examines healthcare at the dawn...
| Main Author: | Wachter, Robert M. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- On call ; Shovel ready
- the note. The iPatient ; The note ; Strangers at the bedside ; Radiology rounds ; Go live ; Unanticipated consequences
- Decisions and data. Can computers replace the physician's brain? ; David and Goliath ; Big data
- The overdose. The error ; The system ; The doctor ; The pharmacist ; The alerts ; The robot ; The nurse ; The patient
- The connected patient. OpenNotes ; Personal health records and patient portals ; A community of patients
- The players and the policies. Meaningful use ; Epic and athena ; Silicon Valley meets healthcare ; The productivity paradox
- Toward a brighter future. A vision of health information technology ; The nontechnological side of making health IT work ; Art and science.