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Item Details
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HEALTH IT AS A TOOL FOR PREVENTION IN PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES
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| By: |
Divya Srinivasan Sridhar |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£143.97 |
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| ISBN 10: |
148221475X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781482214758 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
| Pub. date: |
14 January, 2014 |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Synopsis: |
Health IT as a Tool for Prevention in Public Health Policies examines the current state of Health Information Technology (HIT) in the United States. It investigates the converging problems of chronic disease, societal welfare, childhood obesity, and the lack of healthcare for the economically disadvantaged in the U.S. It considers various providers of care for disadvantaged groups and outlines innovative public policy solutions to a wide range of community problems.The book starts by detailing the major problems the U.S. has faced with its healthcare system. Next, it describes current federal efforts to solve these problems and unveils novel solutions to these challenges. Each chapter examines a different technological solution that the U.S. is currently investing in and allocating time, resources, and energy to.Supplying a basic theoretical foundation on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the book discusses the effects of geographic disparities and HIT at the meso, macro, and micro levels of society. It also demonstrates how individuals can use a range of HITs to improve prevention of health concerns, including mobile health apps, video games, self-management technologies, crowdsourcing, and other e-health technologies. The book describes HIEs, RHIOs, and NHIN and explains how they connect to Community Health Centers (CHCs). It also explains how CHCs can use HIT to improve care for the disadvantaged and Medicaid population. It includes a case study of electronic health literacy and cancer patients and another on how equipping private practice physicians with EMRs can help them tackle prevention and improve organizational functioning.The book concludes by providing a comparative perspective between the use of HIT in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and by suggesting the direction that the U.S. should take toward cloud-based solutions to its e-health infrastructure. |
| Illustrations: |
18 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Productivity Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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