Transforming health care : the financial impact of technology, electronic tools, and data mining

Summary: The healthcare technology revolution is just around the corner. And when it arrives, it will change and enrich our lives in ways we can only begin to imagine. Doctors will perform blood pressure readings via video chat and nutritionists will analyze diet based on photos taken with cellphone cameras. Transforming Health Care combines healthcare, technology, and finance in an innovative new way that explains the future of healthcare and its effects on patient care, exploring the emergence of electronic tools that will transform the medical industry. Explaining how technology, not politics, will lead the future of the healthcare revolution, author and healthcare technology expert Phil Fasano presents real-life examples that show how the next generation of medical breakthroughs will come from the instant exchange of information across the world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781118350003
ISBN: 9781118350003 (cloth)
ISBN: 1118350006 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	New October 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	ch. 1 Emergence of Electronic Tools -- Real-Time Health Care Begins -- Paperless Revolution: Let's Get Going! -- Life-Saving Breakthrough -- Dawn of the Patient Record -- Digital Age Dawns -- Kaiser Permanente Experience -- Electronic Health Records: All You, All Digital -- From the Back Office to Better Health -- From Paper to EMRs to EHRs to the Future -- Notes -- ch. 2 Future -- Jumping the Hurdles -- Just Connect -- Lonely EMRs -- Patient-Centered Care -- Health Care Just Got Smarter -- Road Ahead -- Health Financial Exchanges -- HIEs and HFEs Serve the Patient and Create Profit -- Notes -- ch. 3 Investing in Healthcare IT Innovations -- ATM Parallel -- Consumers: Ahead of the Curve -- Up Next: Mobile Banking and Mobile Health -- Investing in Winning Healthcare IT Innovation -- Looking for Investment in All the Right Places -- Opportunities for Innovation and Return on Investment Abound -- Notes -- ch. 4 Virtual Visits -- Easier Than Programming Your TV Remote Control -- Rx for Good Health: No Waiting with mHealth -- Mobile Health Is Personal Health -- Notes -- ch. 5 Connected Care Teams -- Telehealth for One-Stop Care -- In the Hospital -- Telemedicine: A Changing Role -- Changing Practices -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Helping as Many People as We Can -- Notes -- ch. 6 Three Key Players Driving Healthcare IT Innovation -- Government: Rewarding Success Instead of Funding Failure -- Government: Guardrails, Handrails, and Connectors -- Government: Seed Money for Healthcare IT -- Payers: Healthcare Plans and Insurers Enter the EHR Market -- Payers Leap into Accountable Care -- Private Sector: Leveraging Technology, Filling Unmet Needs -- Action by Government, Payers, and the Private Sector Needed to Succeed -- Notes -- ch. 7 Global Healthcare IT -- Denmark: Fostering Digital Health Care -- Netherlands: A Controversy over National Health Records -- New Zealand: Interoperability Leader -- Global Lessons Hold Domestic Value -- Notes -- ch. 8 Real-Time Learning -- Introducing Real-Time Analytic Systems -- Medicine's New Superstar--The Health Data Analyst -- Care Registries: Putting Data into Practice -- Putting It All Together -- Notes -- ch. 9 Predictive Medicine -- Saving Time, Money, Lives -- Portable Care: Health Information Exchanges -- World-Class Care for Everyone: Care Registries -- Future Health: Research and Predictive Care -- From Prevention to Prediction -- Notes -- ch. 10 Connected System -- Connected Care: It's Personal -- At Stake: Your Health and Your Money -- Proactive Care: It Really Works! -- Solving the Healthcare Spending Crisis -- Getting There from Here: A Road Map -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.