Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age (Hardcover, New)

With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions. Patient use of web-based information may undermine the traditional information monopoly that physicians have long enjoyed. New IT systems may increase physicians' legal liability and heighten expectations about transparency. Case studies on kidney transplants and maternity practices reveal the unanticipated effects, positive and negative, of patient uses of the new technology. An independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized interest into the medical arena. Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Release date:	August 2010
First published:	September 2010
Editors:	David J. Rothman • David Blumenthal
Introduction by:	David Blumenthal
Contributors:	Matthew Dimick • Mark A Hall • Kristin Madison • Michael Painter • Marc Rodwin • Sara Rosenbaum • Mark Suchman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-4807-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General
LSN:	0-8135-4807-1
Barcode:	9780813548074

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