{"product_id":"the-digital-doctor-hope-hype-and-harm-at-the-dawn-of-medicines-computer-age","title":"The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, \u003ci\u003eModern Healthcare's\u003c\/i\u003e #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America's leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLogically enough, we've pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation's most thoughtful physicians, \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don't simply replace my doctor's scrawl with Helvetica 12,\" writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. \"Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it's not too late to get it right.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone - patient and provider alike - who cares about our healthcare system.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGraw-Hill Companies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944270627047,"sku":"9781260019605","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_e8b8477a-24e5-40b9-9d49-f18187ad37ea.jpg?v=1775357415","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-digital-doctor-hope-hype-and-harm-at-the-dawn-of-medicines-computer-age","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}