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Information Therapy: Prescribed Information As A Reimbursable Medical Service by medical consumer activist Donald W. Kemper and Medical self-care and health promotion expert Molly Mettler offers an original and ground breaking proposition to change modern health care for the better. The definition of "information therapy" is that patients should be provided with accurate information, based on evidence, as part of the treatment. The individual chapters comprising Information Therapy discuss how to best put this idea into solid practice, and its impact on the health care industry, and more. Information Therapy is a profound, iconoclastic, persuasive, and a welcome, recommended contribution to the national debate over the nature and need of public health care policy today.

If you are in the Health Information Technology field, and you've wondered how you, as an IT person, can deliver value to your business in the form of new ideas, this book is for you. Healthcare IT is a relatively new field attempting to marry Healthcare and Information Technology, and like other emerging fields, is full of cool new technology and cool new ideas, so much so that its easy to forget (or not know or not care) why we are doing what we are doing (or what our domain experts tell us to do). This book provides a patient centric answer to these questions, and provides many new ideas on how IT people (who are closest to the data and therefore know best how to use it) can provide value to patients and persons seeking health information, and indirectly to their own businesses. If you've been in the Healthcare IT business for around 6 months or more (and/or are familiar with your data and workflow), you would definitely benefit by reading this book.