EAN: 9781461456285

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE HEALTH INF...

Despite its high cost  the US healthcare system produces relatively short life spans  and is
wasteful  inefficient and has serious safety and quality issues. While other industries have
surmounted similar challenges by transforming themselves through information technology 
healthcare lags behind. Major reasons are that our approaches to care delivery and financial
incentives were designed for a bygone era. Beyond that the technology offered to practitioners
has often been overly expensive  poorly designed  overly proprietary  hard to implement and
difficult to use. Spurred by a unique  one-time Federal stimulus and the new mobile  wireless
and cloud technologies now available  this landscape is rapidly changing. To succeed going
forward practitioners  and those interested in entering the field  need to understand the new
driving forces and have a basic understanding of contemporary clinical informatics.
Practitioners  in particular  need to understand the alternative technologies and approaches
available for their use in individual patient care and more continuous management of their
chronic disease patients. To efficiently meet these needs  this book provides an introduction
to the rationale for care transformation through clinical informatics  its application to
patient care outside of hospitals  and a look at its future. Key points are illustrated
throughout by actual examples of open source and commercial health IT products and services.
While written with practitioners and students entering the field of clinical informatics in
mind  the book eschews technical terminology and is easily accessible by the lay reader not
proficient in clinical medicine or information technology.

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