The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age PDF
By:Robert Wachter
Published on 2015-04-10 by McGraw Hill Professional
The 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.
This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword athena medical computer system.
Book ID of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age's Books is qO-VBgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byRobert Wachterhave ETAG "2FcSrASjdMA"
Book which was published by McGraw Hill Professional since 2015-04-10 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780071849470 and ISBN 10 Code is 0071849475
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "320 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryBusiness and Economics
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true
Book Preview
Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age PDF Free
Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age Book Free
Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age Free
Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age PDF
Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age Book
How to Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age Book
How to Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
How to Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age pdf
How to Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age free
Free Download The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
