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Medicine and the Information Age

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Dr. Rose provides health professionals with the insight needed to function in a technologically complex healtcare environment. This is a must-read book for health care professionals who are impacted by automation and technology. It is also a great book for IT professionals to read in order to gain insight into the typical reactions they receive from physicians and nurses about technology. Thanks Dr. Rose for eloquently describing the complex technology terms and environment, as well as typical emotional reactions that can be expected as health care becomes more technologically advanced.

Dr. Rose accomplishes in this book exactly what he set out to do and does so in an innovative and creative way. He closes the language gap by deftly explaining the "techno terms" and uses examples that clinicians as well as health care managers can understand. He also explains the human factors and barriers involved in information technology and demonstrates the history of these with the creative use of a medical case history. It is a rich blend of insights into clinical and organizational decisionmaking related to technology and information systems applications - their pitfalls and their successes. As a professor teaching a class in technical applications of information systems in health care, I highly recommend this book as a supplement to current texts. It offers a unique perspective to the world of information systems in health care.

A real tour de force that combines biomedical and computer language familiarization with applications to managing health care institutions. Using humor and analogies, Rose has written a professional book that doctors and other health care professionals can actually enjoy reading while they learn the language of medical informatics. Lots of management savvy, too, as a bonus.

This is an amazing, detailed exploration of how information influences healthcare delivery. Western medicine is more of an art than a science, and Dr. Rose is the first to explain and justify how we, the healthcare providers and the medical institutions, must embrace information technology in order to compete in the ever more information intensive world. The case history of medicine (chapter one) is simply a classic. I was overwhlemed by the exhaustive references. He states a bold hypothesis and then delivers in the analysis, citing source after source and building a solid case. The section he refers to as the "bioenterprise" is, in a word, visionary. And for novices, the glossary is presented with just the right mixture of mirth, tempored cynisism, and scholarship. Highly, highly recommended to anyone who wants to see >into the future of healthcare in the USA.