UNLOCKING THE
POTENTIAL OF
ELECTRIC HEALTH
RECORDS TO UNITE
PATIENTS & PROVIDERS
WHY THE BOOK
The book looks at why Electronic Health Record systems have failed after several decades by looking into how they evolved in spite of ever-improving computing capability and how this represents a missed opportunity in making clinicians more effective and efficient. The book also suggests a way to correct this and embark on a rapid path to finally deliver to clinicians and their supporting staff the electronic health records and the systems they need to provide better health care in a more cost-effective environment.
From a lifetime of providing care, I see the absolute need for EHRs designed to cover the patient’s lifetime with accurate that every clinician critically needs for every Clinical encounter. But today’s EHRs do not do that, they are increasingly dictating how clinicians should do their work, with insurance companies enforcing the options they wish clinicians to use.
THE BOOK
Contents and Synopsis chapter by chapter
Prologue
Part I The Early Evolution of EHR
Chapter 1 A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 2 A Technological Perspective
Part II The Korea case study
Chapter 3 A Clinical Case Study
Chapter 4 A Technological Case Study
Part III The Chaos that is
Chapter 5 A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 6 A Technological Perspective
Part IV The Cure for the Chaos
Chapter 7 A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 8 A Technological Perspective
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
KEN HOFFMAN
Medical Director of Steven A Cohen Military Family Clinic at Easterseals
Ken’s contribution is based on a clinician’s view of electronic health records, what they are currently and what he would wish to see,
I have spent many decades developing systems to help people do their jobs better. When I started working in healthcare I was alerted to the fact that clinicians, the most precious resource we have in providing good care do not have the tools they need to deliver that care when it comes to computer systems
PRESENTATIONS
Opportunities to hear presentations from the Authors
GILBERT PANT
Gilbert’s contribution is as a lifelong IT systems designer who sees the development of decision support tools for clinicians, or the lack of them as a missed opportunity in IT and a major waste of resources in an environment where costs are rapidly becoming out of control.
PRESENTATIONS
Opportunities to hear presentations from the Authors
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the enormous debt I have towards Mr Alan Parkin through several decades of friendship and support in my work in IT, and in particular the brainstorming sessions that we had resulting in our ideas for how to build a true electronic health record for clinicians and our work on Workgroups and Template (Gilbert)
Thanks to family for supporting etc etc…
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