It's About Patient Care

"A proven working model of healthcare IT as a transformative clinical and business engine from one of the world's leading healthcare organizations. Exciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century. This industry-changing guide by Cleveland Clinic's esteemed chief information officer shows health professionals how to design, implement, and maximize their IT systems to deliver fully integrated, coordinated, high-quality care. The book offers value-based strategies that health systems can apply using online tools and IT systems to improve collaboration among patients, caregivers, and care teams including sophisticated electronic medical record-keeping and -sharing, real-time access to clinical data and research, machine-guided therapeutics, online second opinions, virtual visits, even social media. This is the future of quality healthcare the Cleveland Clinic way"--