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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.
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.
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