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Medical
Professionalism in the New Information Age
Price: $24.95
Editors:
David J. Rothman and
David Blumenthal
Subject: Technology,
Health
Policy
Paper ISBN:
978-0-8135-4808-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4807-4
Pages:
224 pages
Publication Date: September 2010
Series:
Critical
Issues in Health and Medicine
Praise:
"Rothman and Blumenthal's compelling book,
Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age, fills a current gap
in the literature on the possible implications of information
technology for practicing physicians, health care organizations, and
the profession more generally, thereby advancing both policy analysis
and clinical practice."—Melissa Goldstein, George Washington University Medical
Center
Description:
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. Patient use of web-based information may
undermine the traditional information monopoly that physicians have
long enjoyed. New IT systems may increase physicians’ legal liability
and heighten expectations about transparency. Case studies on kidney
transplants and maternity practices reveal the unanticipated effects,
positive and negative, of patient uses of the new technology. An
independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized
interest into the medical arena. Taken together, these investigations
cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.
About the Author:
DAVID J. ROTHMAN is president of the Institute on Medicine as
a Profession (IMAP) and Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine
at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. His many books
include Strangers at the Bedside
and The Pursuit of Perfection
with Sheila M. Rothman.
DAVID BLUMENTHAL is national coordinator for health information
technology in the Department of Health and Human Services. When
he contributed to this volume, he was director of the Institute for
Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare
System and professor of health care policy and Samuel O. Thier
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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