Computational Technology for Effective Health Care Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions (2009) / Chapter Skim
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2 A Vision for 21st Century Health Care and Wellness
2 A Vision for 21st Century Health Care and Wellness
Pages 19-24
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In the words of the IOM, health care should be: • Safe -- avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them. • Effective -- providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit, avoiding underuse and overuse, respectively.
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Each bullet phrase below summarizes one of these important health care IT capabilities, followed by an illustrative vignette of what might be possible. The vignettes (displayed in italic type)
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The clinical significance of the smart medications table and the mass spectrometer is that together they help to reduce uncertainty by synthesizing different views into the patient's medication history. • Cognitive support for health care professionals and patients to help integrate patient-specific data where possible and account for any uncertainties that remain. A primary care clinician needs to monitor a patient's heart condition.
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• Rapid integration of new instrumentation, biological knowledge, treatment modalities, and so on, into a "learning" health care system that
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Rather, the young people run an application on their mobile phones that uploads an SMS message containing their current location every 30 seconds to a private account where an application processes and summarizes loca tion-activity data generated from accelerometers on their phones. The doctor has recently introduced a new feature whereby her patients use special Bluetooth-equipped inhalers that report via the mobile phone each time the inhaler is used.
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• Empowerment of patients and their families in effective management of health care decisions and execution, including personal health records (as contrasted to medical records held by care providers) , education about the individual's conditions and options, and support of timely and focused communication with professional health care providers.
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