Digital Medicine: Implications for Healthcare Leaders

Jeff Goldsmith, PhD

Softbound, 199pp, 2003

Book Description

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.

    • What Readers Are Saying

    “Digital Medicine will be an indispensable book for anyone working on using computerized physician support tools to reform and improve American healthcare. It is a remarkable, thorough, and insightful book on what might be the single most important challenge facing healthcare today—how to use the computer to significantly enhance the delivery of care.”

    —George C. Halvorson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

    “In his new book Jeff Goldsmith correctly perceives the tremendous potential that information technology has to transform our vast healthcare system, but his most important thesis is the need for leadership to make it happen. Digital Medicine will be an important catalyst to inspire healthcare managers to become leaders. Their commitment to technology will fulfill the promise of a new, more efficient and effective healthcare system.”

    —Leonard D. Schaeffer, chairman and CEO, WellPoint Health Networks Inc.,Thousand Oaks, CA

    “Digital Medicine details a vision for patient-centric healthcare and provides rational approaches for using digital technology to get there. It is an excellent read for healthcare leaders and for those who are interested in knowing how digital technology can help create a more effective healthcare system.”

    —Ralph Snyderman, MD, chancellor for health affairs and executive dean, school of medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC