Research Catalog

Title

Cybermedicine : how computing empowers doctors and patients for better health care / Warner V. Slack. ; cartoons by Charles Slack. ; foreword by Ralph Nader.

Author

Slack, Warner V., 1933-

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

xvii, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Cybermedicine is filled with real-life examples from patients, practitioners, and health care institutions and offers convincing evidence that computers can provide doctors with an invaluable extension of their clinical resources as well as the means for transferring more control to the patient. And ultimately, Slack shows that the computer has been a humanizing influence in the practice of medicine."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Cybermedicine presents a compelling argument for the use of computers for initial diagnosis and assessment, for crucial decisions in the course of treatment, and for self-care, research, prevention, and - above all - patient empowerment.".

Subjects

• Physician and patient
• Physician-Patient Relations
• Medical informatics
• Practice Management, Medical
• Computers
• Medical Informatics Applications

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-205) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Ralph Nader -- 1. Providing Information to Patients -- 2. The First Patient-Computer Dialogue -- 3. The Computer as a Patient's Assistant -- 4. The Computer in Psychotherapy -- 5. The Patient On-Line -- 6. Computing for the Hospital -- 7. Computing for the Clinician -- 8. The Clinician On-Line -- 9. Confidentiality -- 10. Barriers to Clinical Computing -- 11. What Can Be Done.

ISBN

0787903434 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97003821

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries