Paper Kills - Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology
Moving our healthcare system from pen and paper to 21st-century information technology is essential to getting the best care to people at the lowest cost. The Center for Health Transformation is continuing its leadership in bringing about this transformation of our healthcare system and our health. --Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.Health information technology has real promise for American healthcare. David Merritt and his authors have given new texture and depth to how to fulfill this promise. --David J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D.Medicine is inherently an information science. The better access clinicians have to the latest medical science and patient information, the better they can diagnose a problem, offer options to patients, and achieve better results. This book lays the foundation for a new healthcare system that can match state-ofthe- art science to each individual's needs. You hold healthcare's future in your hands. --Brent C. James, M.D., M.Stat.