The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age

Better, safer, cheaper healthcare? A nationally renowned healthcare professional explains how we can finally achieve the seemingly impossible: a healthcare system that works for everyone What may be the most important system ever devised is undergoing complete transformation-and Disrupted takes you [...]
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Better, safer, cheaper healthcare? A nationally renowned healthcare professional explains how we can finally achieve the seemingly impossible: a healthcare system that works for everyone What may be the most important system ever devised is undergoing complete transformation-and Disrupted takes you to heart of it. In this book that's sure to draw interest and controversy from any number of camps, Dr. Robert Wachter describes the transition of healthcare from an impossibly complex array of unconnected systems and specialties to a homogenous, high-tech entity that wires everything together via computers. Wachter discusses how this is all beginning to happen now, what it will look like in the end, and how people and professionals will benefit.