Health Informatics: A Patient-Centered Approach to Diabetes [Kindle Edition]
Author: Barbara M. Hayes William Aspray | Language: English | ISBN: B00ELVRAF2 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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The healthcare industry has been slow to join the information technology revolution;
handwritten records are still the primary means of organizing patient care. Concerns about patient
privacy, the difficulty of developing appropriate computing tools and information technology, high
costs, and the resistance of some physicians and nurses have hampered the use of technology in
health care. In 2009, the U.S. government committed billions of dollars to health care technology.
Many questions remain, however, about how to deploy these resources. In Health Informatics, experts
in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes--a costly, complex, and widespread disease that
involves nearly every facet of the health care system--to examine the challenges of using the tools
of information technology to improve patient care. Unlike other books on medical informatics that
discuss such topics as computerized order entry and digital medical records, Health Informatics
focuses on the patient, charting the information problems patients encounter in different stages of
the disease. [Chapters discuss ubiquitous computing as a tool to move diabetes care out of the
doctor's office, technology and chronic disease management, educational gaming as a way to help
patients understand their disease, patient access to information, and methodological and theoretical
concerns.] We need both technologists and providers at the drawing board in order to design and
deploy effective digital tools for health care. This book examines and exemplifies this necessary
collaboration.
- File Size: 4622 KB
- Print Length: 400 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (August 27, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ELVRAF2
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,791,266 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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