Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Emergence of Electronic Tools -- Real-Time Health Care Begins -- The Paperless Revolution: Let's Get Going! -- A Life-Saving Breakthrough -- The Dawn of the Patient Record -- The Digital Age Dawns -- The Kaiser Permanente Experience -- Electronic Health Records: All You, All Digital -- From the Back Office to Better Health -- From Paper to EMRs to EHRs to the Future -- Notes -- ch. 2 The Future -- Jumping the Hurdles -- Just Connect -- Lonely EMRs -- Patient-Centered Care -- Health Care Just Got Smarter -- The Road Ahead -- Health Financial Exchanges -- HIEs and HFEs Serve the Patient and Create Profit -- Notes -- ch. 3 Investing in Healthcare IT Innovations -- The ATM Parallel -- Consumers: Ahead of the Curve -- Up Next: Mobile Banking and Mobile Health -- Investing in Winning Healthcare IT Innovation -- Looking for Investment in All the Right Places -- Opportunities for Innovation and Return on Investment Abound -- Notes -- ch. 4 Virtual Visits -- Easier Than Programming Your TV Remote Control -- Rx for Good Health: No Waiting with mHealth -- Mobile Health Is Personal Health -- Notes -- ch. 5 Connected Care Teams -- Telehealth for One-Stop Care -- In the Hospital -- Telemedicine: A Changing Role -- Changing Practices -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Helping as Many People as We Can -- Notes -- ch. 6 Three Key Players Driving Healthcare IT Innovation -- Government: Rewarding Success Instead of Funding Failure -- Government: Guardrails, Handrails, and Connectors -- Government: Seed Money for Healthcare IT -- Payers: Healthcare Plans and Insurers Enter the EHR Market -- Payers Leap into Accountable Care -- The Private Sector: Leveraging Technology, Filling Unmet Needs -- Action by Government, Payers, and the Private Sector Needed to Succeed -- Notes -- ch. 7 Global Healthcare IT -- Denmark: Fostering Digital Health Care -- The Netherlands: A Controversy over National Health Records -- New Zealand: Interoperability Leader -- Global Lessons Hold Domestic Value -- Notes -- ch. 8 Real-Time Learning -- Introducing Real-Time Analytic Systems -- Medicine's New Superstar -- The Health Data Analyst -- Care Registries: Putting Data into Practice -- Putting It All Together -- Notes -- ch. 9 Predictive Medicine -- Saving Time, Money, Lives -- Portable Care: Health Information Exchanges -- World-Class Care for Everyone: Care Registries -- Future Health: Research and Predictive Care -- From Prevention to Prediction -- Notes -- ch. 10 Connected System -- Connected Care: It's Personal -- At Stake: Your Health and Your Money -- Proactive Care: It Really Works! -- Solving the Healthcare Spending Crisis -- Getting There from Here: A Road Map -- Conclusion -- Notes.
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