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Empowering the Connected Physician in the E-Patient Era

How Physician’s Empowerment On Digital Health Tools Can Improve Patient Empowerment and Boost Health(care) Outcomes

Letizia Affinito author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st Oct '18

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The constantly evolving digital world must be used in the practice of medicine to improve the care of patients. However, the only way to do so effectively is via evidence-based, meaningful and strategic use. Empowering the Connected Physician in the E-Patient Era provides practical guidance in this mission and is thus essential reading for all health stakeholders looking into approaching this.

Drawing on the author’s research and consulting practice, as well as on the practical experience of managers in medium-large organizations worldwide, the book will provide a proven framework to improve the development and implementation of physicians’ empowering digital programs in these organizations, a step-by-step guide for how companies can develop and implement programs aiming at empowering physicians while empowering patients. It is an engaging how-to/how-not-to book which will include tips, advice and critical reviews that every stakeholder must have in order to participate in the evolving healthcare system and be more active in making strategic patient-centered choices.

This book will help healthcare organizations chart a course within this new territory and thereby improve their ability to engage with empowered patients.

"For the past 20 years I’ve worked to create a shared medical record between providers and patients - not separate silos for clinicians and families. This book will help us all understand the best practices that link digitally empowered patients and providers embracing new technologies" - John D. Halamka, International Healthcare Innovation Professor, Harvard Medical School

"This bookis timely. The burden of chronic disease is enormous and beyond the resources of any society to afford using traditional episodic care approaches. Chronic diseases management can only be meaningfully affected by patients who participate in their care. For centuries, responsibility, accountability and decision-making was solely the domain of the physician. Today, this model is counterproductive. Sharing of data, information, and knowledge, through electronic tools shifts the balance of power increasingly to patients. This book recognizes that this transition requires that physicians support the patient in becoming their partner in care." - David J. Cook, MD, FAHA, Emeritus Professor, Mayo School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. Consultant, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Chief Clinical and Operating Officer, Jiahui Health, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China.

"Affinito argues that using a human-centered design strategy in understanding the nuanced behaviors of both physician and patient are crucial to the success of the new technologies and systems created for the digital health and wellness space. Her book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges in today's integrated care systems and the necessary steps to bridge the gap between physician, patient and the successful adoption of new digital technologies." - Dennis Boyle, Design for Health, Partner and Founding Team Member, IDEO

ISBN: 9781138497375

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 448g

192 pages