Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Available in cloth. Review Quotes: "Rothman and Blumenthal''s compelling book, "Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age", fills a current gap in the literature on the possible implications of information technology for practicing physicians, health care organizations, and the profession more generally, thereby advancing both policy analysis and clinical practice."--Melissa Goldstein"George Washington University Medical Center" (05/26/2009) Biographical Note: DAVID J. ROTHMAN is president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. His many books include Strangers at the Bedside and The Pursuit of Perfection with Sheila M. Rothman. DAVID BLUMENTHAL is national coordinator for health information technology in the Department of Health and Human Services. When he contributed to this volume, he was director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and professor of health care policy and Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Review Quotes: "Rothman and Blumenthal's compelling book, "Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age," fills a current gap in the literature on the possible implications of information technology for practicing physicians, health care organizations, and the profession more generally, thereby advancing both policy analysis and clinical practice."--Melissa Goldstein"George Washington University Medical Center" (05/26/2009) Publisher Marketing: With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions. Patient use of web-based information may undermine the traditional information monopoly that physicians have long enjoyed. New IT systems may increase physicians' legal liability and heighten expectations about transparency. Case studies on kidney transplants and maternity practices reveal the unanticipated effects, positive and negative, of patient uses of the new technology. An independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized interest into the medical arena. Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.

Contributor Bio:  Rothman, David J David J. Rothman's books of poetry are PART OF THE DARKNESS, Dominion of Shadow, The Elephant's Chiropractor, Beauty at Night, The Book of Catapults, and The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope, for which he is the editor. He is the co-author with Stephen Powers and Stanley Rothman of the Hollywood's America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures. He is the Director of the Poetry Concentration with an Emphasis on Versecraft in the MFA program at Western State Colorado University and also teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Denver University, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. Contributor Bio:  Blumenthal, David, R David Blumenthal was until recently the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has advised Democratic presidential candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barack Obama, and now works on health issues for the Obama Administration. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Brown University and the author of "Hellfire Nation "and "The Democratic Wish, "a "New York Times "Notable Book and winner of the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association. Contributor Bio:  Golden, Janet Janet Golden is professor of history, Rutgers University, and the author of several books including Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Contributor Bio:  Hall, Mark Mark Hall is a true storyteller and a teacher with a heart for ministry. He is lead singer and songwriter for the Grammy Award-winning band Casting Crowns, whose first three albums have sold nearly four million copies. He has been in ministry nearly twenty years and has served at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Georgia, for the last eight years. Mark admits he d be overwhelmed by life s demands were it not for his wife of nineteen years, Melanie, who also serves as Casting Crowns road manager. Even on tour, Mark and Melanie homeschool their four children: John Michael, Reagan, Zoe, and Hope.