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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert M Wachter |
ISBN: | 9780071849463 0071849467 |
OCLC Number: | 900261072 |
Description: | xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Robert Wachter. |
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Abstract:
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?
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