The digital doctor : hope, hype, and harm at the dawn of medicine's computer age / Robert Wachter.
The digital doctor : hope, hype, and harm at the dawn of medicine's computer age / Robert Wachter.
The digital doctor : hope, hype, and harm at the dawn of medicine's computer age / Robert Wachter.
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New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2015]
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G 2015/3689
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English
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Physical content
xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
On call ; Shovel ready -- the note. The iPatient ; The note ; Strangers at the bedside ; Radiology rounds ; Go live ; Unanticipated consequences -- Decisions and data. Can computers replace the physician's brain? ; David and Goliath ; Big data -- The overdose. The error ; The system ; The doctor ; T...
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New York : McGraw-Hill Education, [2015]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills, yet medicine stubbornly resisted computerization-- until now. Thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Wachter examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age, and shows how technology is changi...
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The digital doctor : hope, hype, and harm at the dawn of medicine's computer age / Robert Wachter.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index.
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G 2015/3689
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74VKRaaEbAPy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRaaEbAPy
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ISBN
0071849467 (MHID)
9780071849463
DDC
610.285
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991023144379702626
