| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Contents |
Expecting the unexpected : health information technology and medical professionalism / David Blumenthal -- Quality regulation in the information age : challenges for medical professionalism / Kristen Madison and Mark Hall -- The "information Rx" / Nancy Tomes -- When new is old : professional medical liability in the information age / Sara Rosenbaum and Michael W. Painter -- Patient data : professionalism, property, and policy / Marc Rodwin -- The impact of information technology on organ donation : private values in a public world / Sheila Rothman, Natassia Rozario, and David Rothman -- Changing the rules : the impact of information technology on contemporary maternity practice / Eugene Declercq -- A profession of IT's own : the rise of health information professionals in American healthcare / Mark C. Suchman and Matthew D. Dimick |
| Summary |
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. Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical informatics.
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Medical policy.
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Medicine -- Practice.
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Medicine -- Data processing.
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Medical Informatics -- trends
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Professional Practice -- trends
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Medical Informatics
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Medical Informatics Applications
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Health Policy
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MEDICAL -- Physicians.
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MEDICAL -- General.
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Medicine -- Data processing
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Medical informatics
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Medical policy
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Medicine -- Practice
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rothman, David J.
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Blumenthal, David, 1948-
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Apple, Rima
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Dimick, Matthew
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Golden, Janet.
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Hall, Mark A.
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Madison, Kristin
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Painter, Michael.
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Rodwin, Marc A.
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Rosenbaum, Sara.
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Suchman, Mark C.
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Tomes, Nancy Jane
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| ISBN |
9780813550367 |
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081355036X |
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