CyberMedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Healthcare - Hardcover

Slack, W.V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787903434 ISBN 13: 9780787903435

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

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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".

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WARNER V. SLACK M.D., is associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the editor of M.D. Computing.

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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.?

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For more than thirty years, Warner Slack 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.?Cybermedicine presents a compelling argument for the use of computers for initial diagnosis and assessment, for crucial decisions in the course of treatment, and for self-care, research, prevention, and?above all?patient empowerment.Cybermedicine is filled with real-life examples from patients, practitioners, and health care institutions and offers convincing evidence that computers can provide doctors with an invaluable extension of their clinical resources as well as the means for transferring more control to the patient. And ultimately, Slack shows that the computer has been a humanizing influence in the practice of medicine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787903434
• ISBN 13: 9780787903435
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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