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Cybermedicine : how computing empowers doctors and patients for better care / Warner V. Slack ; with a foreword by Ralph Nader.
Holman Biotech Commons R858 .S556 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slack, Warner V., 1933-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical informatics.
- Physician and patient.
- Medical Informatics Applications.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Practice Management, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medical Informatics Applications.
- Physician-Patient Relations.
- Practice Management, Medical.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2001]
- Summary:
- In this revised and updated edition of "Cybermedicine", author Warner Slack presents a compelling argument for the use of computers for initial diagnosis and assessment, treatment decisions, self-care, research, prevention, and--above all--patient empowerment.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Cybermedicine and the patient
- Providing information to patients
- Patient-computer dialogue
- Cybermedicine as a patient's assistant
- Cybermedicine in psychology and psychiatry
- The patient on-line
- Pt. 2. Cybermedicine and the clinician
- Cybermedicine in the hospital
- Cybermedicine in the care of the patient
- How well does it work?
- The clinician on-line
- Confidentiality
- Pt. 3. Modern times
- Barriers to cybermedicine
- The importance of being ernst
- New horizons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0787956317
- OCLC:
- 46928858
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