Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era

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Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I ran across this book while searching for something to use in a university seminar, Medicine and the Internet, and adopted the book as a primary source. Most of my students bought it from Amazon along with two other articles and a novel see below.

Digital Medicine raises many of the important issues and offers quite a bit of interesting data about how doctors and other health care professionals and patients use the Web to find information and communicate. The book includes a data set the authors collected through a survey sponsored by the Brookings Institute. It also discusses other data, journal articles, and other sources.

Most of this is good, reliable information. The data is neutral, but the interpretation of the data is heavily weighted by the biases of those at the Brookings Institute. For example, they argue for government-run Web sites and strongly against Web sites that have commercial advertising, even though in many cited cases, these commercial sites have much better content and are more responsive to the needs of the readers.

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The book appears to be strongly biased toward a government-run health care system. There are good arguments for both sides of this debate, but Digital Medicine generally ignores the other side. Also, while the cost of health care is addressed, the book offers few practical solutions. And democracy is messy, with policy principles that are often difficult to reconcile.

The seeming irrationality of U. Add to that stew a myopic or worse press, persistent fears of terrorism, and the difficulties of implementing border enforcement and legal justice. West prescribes a series of reforms that will put America on a better course and enhance its long-term social and economic prosperity. Reconceptualizing immigration as a way to enhance innovation and competitiveness, the author notes, will help us find the next Sergey Brin, the next Andrew Grove, or even the next Albert Einstein. Account Options Sign in. West Edward Alan Miller September 1, Information technology has dramatically changed our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting.

Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of enhanced information technology to health care. Already, consumers can access a tremendous amount of medical information online. Some physicians encourage patients to use email or web messaging to manage simple medical issues. Increasingly, health care products can be purchased electronically.

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Yet the promise of e-health remains largely unfulfilled. Flowing text, Original pages. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.

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In this book, Darrell West discusses how new technology is altering governmental performance, the political process, and democracy itself by improving government responsiveness and increasing information available to citizens. Medicine and What Matters in the End.

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Confusion and debate aside, the federal stimulus package signed in February provides significant incentives and disincentives when it comes to promoting the meaningful use of electronic health records.

There is general political agreement about the need to invest in electronic health records for their potential to enhance the quality of health care, but the lack of standards and interoperability and the cost and complexity of systems create questions about what outcomes will actually be achieved. Ultimately, the US investment in health information technology cannot transform health care unless the systems create value for physicians and patients. Health Care in the Internet Era.

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