Product Description

Paper Kills addresses the most pressing issues in the drive to modernize and improve healthcare through health information technology. Paper Kills guides the reader on a tour of the health information technology landscape, covering topics from protecting privacy and advancing research to building health information exchanges and achieving interoperability. Other chapters explore the role of state governments, health plans, and hospitals in implementing health information technology, as well as the potential of health IT to promote the adoption of best practices in ambulatory care and focus on prevention, wellness, and early detection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172070 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-05
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Review
Health information technology has real promise for American healthcare. David Merritt and his authors have given new texture and depth to how to fulfill this promise. --David J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.

Medicine is inherently an information science. The better access clinicians have to the latest medical science and patient information, the better they can diagnose a problem, offer options to patients, and achieve better results. This book lays the foundation for a new healthcare system that can match state-ofthe- art science to each individual's needs. You hold healthcare's future in your hands. --Brent C. James, M.D., M.Stat.

Moving our healthcare system from pen and paper to 21st-century information technology is essential to getting the best care to people at the lowest cost. The Center for Health Transformation is continuing its leadership in bringing about this transformation of our healthcare system and our health. --Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.

About the Author
Paper Kills was edited by David Merritt, includes an introduction by former Speaker Newt Gingrich, and features contributions from leading minds in healthcare, such as Brandon Savage of GE Healthcare; Scott Serota of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; Richard Umbdenstock of the American Hospital Association; Glen Tullman of Allscripts; Ed Hammond of Duke University; Tom Fritz and Jac Davies of Inland Northwest Health Services; Ed Fotsch of Medem; Mark Frisse of Vanderbilt University; Richard Bankowitz, Eugene Kroch, and Meg Horgan of CareScience; Beryl Vallejo of BJV Consulting; Mark Rothstein of the University of Louisville; and Michael Heekin, chair of the Governors Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board for the state of Florida.

Customer Reviews

Well Written for Public Education
I personally work in the Electronic Medical field and this book was well written in laymans terms. It is a good book for the general public to read to become more knowledgeable about the process and guidelines that need to be taken to put a project together. If I am a patient, I would buy this book!

Thanks Newt!