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Person-centered health records : toward HealthePeople

Person-Centered Health Records: Toward HealthePeople provides essential information on person-centered healthcare systems that will serve individuals throughout their lifetime, enabling a new approach to wellness that goes far beyond outpatient visits to the physician's office or hospitalizations. These health systems represent a profound transformation from the present healthcare system because they will enable individuals to protect and promote their own personal health. The center of the healthcare system will be those individuals -- not the entities such as hospitals or physician groups. And the circle will encompass the full range of activities that contribute to wellness and to fighting disease -- not just those services traditionally defined as healthcare. The book consists of three important sections. Section I addresses how the new person-centered system will change the way individuals care for their own health, giving them health records that accompany them throughout their lives, across the full range of experiences that affect their health. Section II lays out considerations involved in building new systems, including the need to address human factors such as control and ownership and the difficulties involved in relearning and learning to function in changed workflow environments. The third section focuses on approaches to transformation including focuses on delivering change, open source health systems, critical standards convergence, and person-centered systems now in place outside the United States. Chapter highlights include Clinical Impact, Human Factors, Health Security and Privacy, Critical Standards Convergence, and much more. To represent the book's depth and breadth, the editors have brought together contributors from varied health care sectors in the United States and elsewhere -- public and private, not-for-profit and for-profit -- to explicate the concept of the electronic health record and to define the technological enablers that can m
eBook, English, 2005
Springer, New York, 2005
1 online resource (xxvi, 279 p.) : illustrations
9780387273754, 9780387232829, 0387273751, 0387232826
898804886
Available in another form:
Inventing the Future: Envisioning a New Health System.- Inverted Perspectives: Triggering Change.- A Window of Opportunity.- HealthePeople: Person-Centered, Outcomes-Driven, Virtual Health Systems.- The Value of Electronic Health Records.- Personal Outcomes in Health Care.- Human Factors: Changing Systems, Changing Behaviors.- Building the Future: Essential Technologies and Methodologies.- Laying the Foundations: Information Architecture for HealthePeople.- Critical Areas of Standardization.- The Role of Terminology in Future Health Information Systems.- Modeling for Health Care.- HealthePeople Security Architecture.- Open Source Health Systems.- Critical Standards Convergence.- Being in the Future: Case Studies.- A European Perspective on the Cultural and Political Context for Deploying the Electronic Health Record.- Convergence Toward the Pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record.- HealthConnect: A Health Information Network for All Australians.- The Veterans Health Administration: Quality, Value, Accountability, and Information as Transforming Strategies.