Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Health Care - Couverture rigide

Slack, W.V.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0787903434 ISBN 13 : 9780787903435

Editeur : Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1997

Synopsis

This text presents a case for how computers can be used in health care by both clinicians and patients, and argues that competing interests as well as managerial, political and technical barriers have resulted in the misapplication and under-utilization of computer technology in health care settings. The book demonstrates how computers are particularly useful when applied to the areas of diagnosis and assessment, decision-making and specialized techniques in treatment, preventative models and management, crucial research, administration, organization, practice management, and "patient power".

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A very compassionate, patient–first physician pressing for bolder and more comprehensive computer uses in clinical medicine and in direct patient interaction." ? From the Foreword by Ralph Nader

?The influence of the computer on medical care is just starting. Cybermedicine is the most current and complete guide for the layman or professional.? ?Dean S. Edell, M.D., medical journalist

"For all computer–savvy health professionals––and of considerable interest to consumers involved in today′s online health revolution." Tom Ferguson, M.D., author of Health Online

"A superb balanced overview of the remarkable contributions in medicine and health that computers have already made to patients and physicians alike, and of the even more remarkable contributions to which we can look forward from a pioneer in the field, who is responsible for many of the good things that have happened." Howard H. Hiatt, M.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, former dean, Harvard School of Public Health

?This highly readable book should attract anyone interested in the computer medical revolution that is called Cybermedicne.? ?Alvan R. Feinstein, MD, Sterling professor of medicine & epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine

"Makes a well–reasoned case for the increased use of computers, both to enhance what doctors do as well as to help patients become more informed, and, in some cases, to assist in their care." Diane Eicher, Denver Post

Quatrième de couverture

For more than thirty years, Harvard Medical School′s Warner V. Slack, M.D., has been a founding father and pioneer in the research, development, and application of computers in medicine. Now, in his first book, the man Newsweek dubbed ?Cyberdoc? has written a passionate plea for expanded use of computers among both doctors and their patients. Contrary to popular misconception, the computer is misapplied and under–used in medical and behavioral health care. ?The problem is not too much computerization,? Slack says, ?but too little.?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0787903434
• ISBN 13: 9780787903435
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible