Digital Medicine:
Implications for Healthcare Leaders

Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Softbound, 199 pp, 2003
ISBN 1-56793-211-8
Order code:WWW1-1199
Price:$49.00

The purpose of this book is to provide a panoramic view of information technology innovation in healthcare, and more audaciously, a vision of how the U.S. health system will look and feel when healthcare practitioners have learned to use these powerful new tools. It will also discuss what health professionals, healthcare executives, Trustees and investors can do to make this transformation happen.

From the Introduction

Monumental change in the way healthcare is delivered is fast approaching, and the development of information technology will inarguably play a major role in that change. As information technology becomes more sophisticated, it will reshape how hospitals, physicians, consumers, and payors will interact with one another, sharpening the focus of the entire healthcare delivery system while providing higher quality care. The imminent technological advances will affect every aspect of healthcare, from diagnosis and payments to communication with physicians and quality of care, and this new book will help you embrace those changes.

Benefits:

• This book prepares you for the potential roadblocks implementing such a vast transformation will create. Roadblocks such as gaining physician support, balancing competing priorities, managing IT vendors, and defining the board's role in IT management are all discussed.
• The author is a nationally-known healthcare futurist.

About the Author:

Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D. is president of Health Futures, Inc, and associate professor of medical education in the College of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has taught health policy and management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and other leading universities. Mr. Goldsmith received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1973. He worked for the governor of Illinois as a policy analyst and the dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago where he was responsible for planning and government affairs for the Medical Center.
Mr. Goldsmith is a member of the board of directors of the Cerner Corporation, a healthcare informatics firm and Essent Healthcare, an investor-owned hospital management company, and he is a member of the board of advisors of the Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, which invests in biotechnology innovation. He is also an advisor to Cain Brothers, an investment banking firm that works exclusively in healthcare.
Mr. Goldsmith's principal activity is forecasting technological and economic trends in the health system. He has consulted widely for firms spanning the health systems spectrum, including hospital systems, health plans, medical device and product firms, pharmaceutical companies, and multispecialty physician groups. He lives at Ricochet Farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.