Ready to take your IT skills to the healthcare industry? This
concise book provides a candid assessment of the US healthcare
system as it ramps up its use of electronic health records (EHRs)
and other forms of IT to comply with the government's Meaningful
Use requirements. It's a tremendous opportunity for tens of
thousands of IT professionals, but it's also a huge challenge: the
program requires a complete makeover of archaic records systems,
workflows, and other practices now in place.
This book points out how hospitals and doctors' offices differ
from other organizations that use IT, and explains what's necessary
to bridge the gap between clinicians and IT staff.Get an overview
of EHRs and the differences among medical settingsLearn the variety
of ways institutions deal with patients and medical staff, and how
workflows varyDiscover healthcare's dependence on paper records,
and the problems involved in migrating them to digital
documentsUnderstand how providers charge for care, and how they get
paidExplore how patients can use EHRs to participate in their own
careExamine healthcare's most pressing problem--avoidable
errors--and how EHRs can both help and exacerbate it
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