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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