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The Digitalization of Health Care: Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders

Ian P. McLoughlin

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Description for The Digitalization of Health Care: Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders Hardcover. This book explores two controversial examples of attempts to implement national shareable electronic health record systems. It explains why implementing electronic health records has been so fraught with difficulties and argues that the moral basis of recording and sharing health data needs to be re-thought. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPP; KJD; KJU; MBPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
Electronic health records are widely regarded as the 'connective tissue' of any modern healthcare system. For some they represent a 'dangerous enthusiasm' and for others a key enabler of 'disruptive innovation'. Many governments have made major policy and financial investments in digitalizing health records but their implementation has frequently run into opposition from doctors, had lukewarm responses from patients, and raised considerable concerns for privacy advocates and others worried by the security of sensitive health data and the risks of national data-bases. This book draws upon the concept of 'orders of worth' to reveal the moral ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

Hardback

Publication date

2017

Condition

New

Weight

515g

Number of Pages

224

Place of Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom

ISBN

9780198744139

SKU

V9780198744139

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About Ian P. McLoughlin

Ian McLoughlin is Professor of Management at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. He has conducted research on organizational change and innovation in the UK, Europe and Australasia with a particular focus on the digitalization of public services, including healthcare. He is currently leading a major Australian research project on The Healthcare System of the Future. He also plays a ... Read more

Reviews for The Digitalization of Health Care: Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders

That the digital revolution disrupts healthcare is not in question. Whether that disruption is always for the good of all is however quite a different question. This book is for those who want to gain insight into this question as it is these questions of moralities and the disruptive effects that they have on local developments and national programmes that ... Read moreis at the heart of this book.
Enrico Coiera, Professor and Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
This important book explores the transition from paper-based to digital health with academic rigor, yet in an easy-to-read style. It describes today's complex and often painful path to computerization, and places the evolution in the broader context of the clinical, ethical, economic, and political forces that are challenging healthcare systems everywhere. Highly recommended!
Robert M. Wachter, MDChair, Department of Medicine, University of California
This book provides a rich set of insights and deep understanding of the complexities faced by those attempting to develop and implement national shared electronic health systems. As someone who has observed such attempts for over 20 years, the sagas recounted are both rich and full, and read to me much like a very familiar 'guide-book to the town of my birth'. The analysis of the progress and fate of the efforts in both Australia and the U.K. offers valuable insights as to what has made progress so difficult and explains why such national projects may not ever fully deliver what is expected, without clarity being developed as to just what the purpose of the project is and what can realistically be achieved.
Dr David G. More, MB PhD E-Health Analyst and Blogger
The strength of this book is that it combines the development of theory with the detailed analysis of richly-described case studies. The authors base much of the book around the work of Everett Hughes on moral ordersthat is, in relation to professional practice. The challenges of moral orders in a digitized health service can be understood only on a case by case basis using thick description and narrative analysis. It follows that what the reader will get from this book is an enriched understanding of the complexities of attempting to digitize professional practice.
Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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