Research Catalog

Title

The patient will see you now : how advances in science, medicine, and technology will lead to a personalized health care system / Carey James Kriz.

Author

Kriz, Carey James, 1957-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xvi, 184 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"In a world of rapid advances in scientific discovery, with an unprecedented insight and understanding of how the human body works, and technologies available that are reshaping the meaning and value of human existence, the statistics on the U.S. health care system are shocking. And, along with the poor performance of our health economy, we have managed to create a system of perverse financial incentives that are paying for the wrong things at the wrong times." "As bleak as this may appear, The Patient Will See You Now makes clear that we are on the verge of a major revolution that has the very real potential to completely redefine how we think about and use health care services. Who is leading the charge? The new systems of health care will be coming from a partner that we did not even have at the beginning of the twentieth century - the computer and the evolving world of the digital environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Medical care > Forecasting
• Disease management
• Biomedical Technology
• Personal Health Services
• Delivery of Health Care
• Disease Management
• Medical technology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. The Rebirth of Health Care -- Ch. 1. The Body as a Mechanical System -- Ch. 2. Mission and the Equation of Life -- Pt. II. Challenges of Data -- Ch. 3. Uncertainty and Truth -- Ch. 4. The Data Harvest -- Ch. 5. Building Human Maps -- Ch. 6. The New Miners -- Pt. III. Co-Revolutions -- Ch. 7. Information to Knowledge -- Ch. 8. Virtual Communities -- Ch. 9. Machine-Based Intelligence -- Pt. IV. A Life Reborn -- Ch. 10. The Information Highway -- Ch. 11. Facilities Redefined -- Ch. 12. The New Professionals and Patients -- Conclusion: An Industry in Motion.

ISBN

• 9780742562042 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0742562042 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044893

OCLC

• ocn180195551
• 180195551
• SCSB-5411133

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries