PDF-(BOOK)-The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter Modern Healthcares 1 Most Influential PhysicianExecutive in the USWhile 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 healthcares illsBut medicine stubbornly resisted computerization until now Over the past five years thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives healthcare has finally gone digitalYet 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 Americas leading hospitals give a teenager a 39fold overdose of a common antibiotic despite a stateoftheart computerized prescribing system How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling pointLogically enough weve 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 hardhitting analysis by one of the nations 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 storyWe need to recognize that computers in healthcare dont simply replace my doctors 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 its not too late to get it rightThis 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. 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The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare\'s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the USWhile 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. July 2017 2 Digital Medicine Innovation Quality Assurance / Regulation / Sentinel Coding Pricing Coverage Liability Interoperability Professional Development / Training Will I get paid? Will I ge What is in this leaflet This leaflet contains answers to some common questions about CIRCADIN. It is particularly important that you read the sections "When to take it" and "How to take it" before yo Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it\'s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there\'s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation.Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. 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