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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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The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, ... Read more
The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
OH, United States
ISBN
9781260019605
SKU
V9781260019605
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About Robert Wachter
Robert Wachter, MD Professor of Medicine Associate Chair, Department of Medicine UCSF School of Medicine Dr. Wachter is one of the worlds true leaders in patient safety and health quality, and first author of Internal Bleeding, a trade book about patient safety that spent ... Read more
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