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Medical Informatics 20/20
Quality and Electronic Health Records through Innovation, Open Solutions and Collaboration
IF WE ARE TO SUCCESSFULLY MOVE FROM A CLOSED, PROVIDER-BASED MEDICAL DELIVERY SYSTEM TO A CONSUMER-DRIVEN, PATIENT CENTERED ONE, WE MUST USE 20/20 VISION AND HARNESS THE POWER OF A MEDICAL INFORMATICS 20/20 MODEL. IN THIS NEW HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM, QUALITY AND ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS WILL BE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS TO IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OF CARE.
TRADITIONAL, CLOSED, PROPRIETARY PROCESSES AND SOFTWARE STRATEGIES ARE INSUFFICIENT ALONE TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES WE FACE. LEADERS MUST EMBRACE PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE THROUGH A CULTURE OF 'COLLABORATION' AND 'INNOVATION' ENABLED BY APPROPRIATE 'OPEN' SOLUTIONS.
DOUGLAS GOLDSTEIN, PETER GROEN, SUNITI PONKSHE, AND MARC WINE
Medical Informatics 20/20 delivers vital knowledge, resources and case studies that provide a roadmap for realizing a quality health care system supported by Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and interoperable health information technology. The Medical Informatics 20/20 Model illuminates the role of three critical strategies: Collaboration, Open Solutions and Innovation, critical to achieving the transformation.
This book's sections and chapters provide the insight and information necessary to help private and public entities create enlightened strategies in their organizations and leverage their existing fundamentals, such as the ability to serve community and provide services and treatments that heal. It also delivers new courses of action for organizations seeking to become high quality, patient centered, health care organizations through the use of EHRs and advanced clinical information systems.
Medical Informatics 20/20 delivers new courses of action for organizations seeking to become high quality, patient centered health care organizations through the use of EHRs and advanced clinical information systems. Although one focus this book is the transformation of the American health care system, the vast majority of the information within it can be applied to achieving similar goals in health care systems throughout the world. Case studies throughout the chapters highlight collaborative initiatives and innovative solutions that are already being used around the world.
Available Fall 2006

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e-Healthcare:
Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce & e-Care
is the fifth Internet book authored and edited by
renown healthcare management executive, Internet expert,
and "practical futurist" Douglas Goldstein.
e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet
e-Commerce & e-Care goes beyond theory and delivers
practical, hands-on e-advice for healthcare executives
and doctors. It delivers a strategic framework and invaluable
tips for planning and launching true e-services-not
just marketing- focused Web sites. Readers gain unique
insights from leading Web services such as CancerSurvivorsNetwork.org,
Channelpoint.com, iVillage.com, Drugstore.com, MySchwab.com,
HealthOnline.com, InteliHealth.com, Healtheon.com, Medformation.com
and others to build consumer and patient e-relationships
that save time and money and create the next generation
of e-commerce and e-care services.
The
book's 18 action-oriented chapters bust health care's
traditional "bricks and mortar" paradigms
wide open, and serve up e-action plans for applying
the new e-business paradigm of e-commerce and e-care
to health care.
Douglas
Goldstein guides, educates, and energizes readers with
e-Predictions, e-Trends, and practical e-strategies
that meet customer needs. Discussion about the rise
of the empowered "e-patient" and the significant
shift from traditional care delivery to "e-care"
provides readers critical insight that can be applied
to their own organizations.
Other
industry leaders offer expertise and e-advice as well.
Multi-media developers Neal Sofian and Dan Newton discuss
the new generation of disease and demand management
and e-care support. Practice management experts Karen
Zupko and Cheryl Toth evaluate the way the Web has changed
the physician-patient relationship, and how physicians
can successfully integrate Web technology into their
practices.
e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet
e-Commerce & e-Care is available in print and
CD-ROM. The traditional print version delivers high
quality print and graphics to support the “read it anywhere”
convenience necessary for today’s busy executive. An
easy-to-use CD-ROM allows for computer-based reading
and includes embedded Web links to abstracted and example
Web sites that illustrate powerful points.
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Douglas
Goldstein
Douglas
Goldstein is a widely recognized expert in healthcare
e-commerce and e-care. He advises health organizations
about how to achieve a leadership position and improve
patient care through appropriate use of Internet and
communication technology. A “practical futurist,” entrepreneur,
and management executive, Doug has guided the nation's
leading healthcare organizations develop alliances and
e-services necessary to survive and prosper in the 21st
Century.
Doug
is the author and editor of the new book e-Healthcare:
Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce & e-Care.
He is also the lead author of a series of five Internet
books: Best of the Net Online Guides to Healthcare,
Finance, and Business on the Internet, (McGraw
Hill Irwin 1997). He writes a monthly column for Managed
Care Interface magazine, called “Medical Internet,”
and has delivered hundreds of educational and empowering
presentations for professionals and consumers nationwide.
Doug is the founder of Health Online, Inc., a rapid growth
company that delivers innovative healthcare e-commerce
and e-care services. At Health Online, Inc., he has
guided the growth of HealthOnline.com, a syndicated
“Online Health and Medical Channel” being used by leading
health systems across the country. Doug has also served
as the President of MedicalInternet.Net, Inc.-a leading
e-commerce business development firm-and the Vice President,
Market Development for Consumer Health Services, a company
that helped over 3 million consumers select a doctor
each year. He is the creator of "Health Adventure
Online," (www.bayfront.org)," a 1998 Smithsonian,
ComputerWorld nominee, "medicalinternet.net"
a leading interactive Web site dedicated to communicating
knowledge to healthcare leaders, and "Greatest
Hits (www.greatesthits.com)," the electronic publishing
site for his five Internet books published by McGrawHill
– Irwin.
Other
healthcare books by Doug include: Building and
Managing Effective Physician Organizations,
(Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996); Alliances: Strategies
for Building Integrated Delivery Systems (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1995); and Medical Staff Alliances:
Building Successful Partnerships with Physicians
(American Hospital Association, 1990).
Table
Of Contents
Chapter
1: The e-Healthcare Revolution: e-communications,
e-communities, e-commerce, and e-care delivery-www.DouglasGoldstein.com
By Douglas
Goldstein
A
fast and furious introduction to the e-world, this chapter
will challenge the way you think about the healthcare
delivery system. Key trends, with built-in statistics
and metrics, support the case that "e" is
changing life, clinical care, and business as we know
it. Predictions and recommended e-actions about how
to implement "e" into your organization are
offered for you and your e-team.
Chapter
2: e-Commerce is the New Business Model
By Douglas
Goldstein
The
economics of the Internet are changing the very foundation
of how business operates across every industry. Take
key lessons from market and thought leaders in other
industries and apply them to your healthcare organization
to achieve critical clinical and business goals through
new technologies.
Chapter
3: The New Healthcare e-Consumer and e-Patient
By Douglas
Goldstein
Meet
the new, empowered healthcare e-consumer and e-patient
who finds reams of information on the Web-then takes
it to his or her doctor for validation. E-consumers
and e-patients are a new breed of folks who are perfectly
comfortable assessing their own health online and adding
it to their doctor's plan of treatment. The providers
who understand how to deal with them will be winners
in the e-healthcare revolution.
Chapter
4: The Explosion of Alternative Medicine Information
and Products on the Web
By Michael
Ross, MD and Pam Tanton
Practical
suggestions for how to deal with the abundance of "alternative"
healthcare products and services on the Web.
Chapter
5: Yesterday’s Medical Model Versus Today’s e-Customer
Focused Care
By Randy
Dulin, Carol Quinn, RN, and Mark Garvey
Insight
about Web-enabled technologies that give physicians
real-time data and communication opportunities for improved
patient care.
Chapter
6: e-Communications and Interactive e-Care: The Next
Generation of Demand and Disease Management
By Neal Sofian,
MPH, Dan Newton, PhD, and Joan DeClaire
A
discussion of Web applications that are evolving disease
management into interactive e-care, and the consumer
behaviors that coincide with this shift.
Chapter
7: Telemedicine Becomes A Reality with Web-Enabled Applications
and Net Devices
By Richard
Nevins, MD and Ronald J. Pion, MD
Predictions
about how the site of care will shift from the doctor's
office to the home.
Chapter
8: Real-Time Customer Information and Health Management
Customer Centers
By Loree
Jurgens, RN, MHA and Douglas Goldstein
How
to Web-enable call center services and transactions
into e-care support services.
Chapter
9: Technology and Online Care Management
By Sandra
J. Feaster, RN, MS, MBA, David J. Howell, PhD, RRT,
and LuAnn Joy, RN, BA
Case
studies that illustrate how the integration of Web-based
and telephonic self-care can improve patients with chronic
disease.
Chapter
10: Beyond Portals: From Brochureware to Interactive
Health Channels
By Douglas
Goldstein and Maggie Fisher, MA
The
first generation of hospital "Web pages" were
simply online brochures that provided information and
little else. In an e-healthcare world, these "pages"
evolve into services and eventually digital channels
that offer consumers and patients access to their doctor
and hospital online. This chapter tells the story of
how a leading health system has grown and evolved their
e-commerce and e-care efforts over the past several
years.
Chapter
11: Meet the Empowered, Interactive SuperNet Woman
By Cheryl
Toth, MBA and Kathi Marshall
Statistics
and case studies to create and maintain a relationship
with this savvy healthcare consumer.
Chapter
12: Doctors Get Wired For e-Patient Communications,
e-Services, and e-Commerce Solutions
Karen Zupko
and Cheryl Toth, MBA
Practical
tips for how physicians can use the Web in to save time
and money, and improve patient relationships.
Chapter
13: Medical Extranets: e-Solutions to Paperwork Nightmares
and Communication Jams
By Cheryl
L. Toth, MBA, Matthew Calish, MBA and Douglas Goldstein
Medical
Extranets promise to decrease or eliminate the paper
and logistical nightmares that exist in the healthcare
system. This chapter describes the details of what
can happen when providers, payors, and suppliers link
themselves using secure connections.
Chapter
14: Pharmaceutical Companies Ride the e-Power of the
Net
By Steven
Sutor
Successful
strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to market
to and collect information from e-consumers.
Chapter
15: Searching for the Holy Grail: Integrated Medical
Records and Beyond
Thoughts
and caveats about implementing a Web-enabled medical
record in physician practice.
Chapter
16: e-Health and the Law
By Laura
Oberbroeckling, JD
Tips
for avoiding legal pitfalls related to e-commerce and
e-healthcare.
Chapter
17: e-Health—Strategies and Tactics for e-Business Development
and e-Success
By Douglas
Goldstein and Michael Stull, MBA
You're
ready to become "e," but how do you start?
This chapter takes you through the process step-by-step
in building an action oriented, e-commerce and e-care
business plan. It also delivers tips and recommendations
about how to structure the effort inside your organization
to achieve the necessary speed to market that is so
essential in the Internet age.
Chapter
18: Invent the "e" Healthcare Future
By Douglas
Goldstein
The
new Net economy and a series of fundamental market forces
have forever changed nearly every business model on
the planet. Get energized to gain an “e” advantage for
21st century e-healthcare future through wrap-up observations
and recommendations.
Building
and Managing Effective
Physician Organizations under Capitation
by Douglas E. Goldstein
List Price: $128.00
Published 7/26/1996
ISBN: 0834208091
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Description
This resource offers you a unique "Building
Block" system, a proven-effective tool used by
organizations to survive and prosper in an era of different
reimbursement schemes, from discounted fee-for-service
and primary care capitation, to global capitation and
percent of premium payment. In this 1996 book, Goldstein
evolved his fundemental system "Building Blocks"
and explored how the Internet and health information
technology would play a vital role in managing physician
organizations in mixed reimbursement environments. In
addition, the book expanded on the "Building Blocks"
of disease management, cost management and empowered
consumer all organized around central core of health
information systems that enabled new business and clinical
processes.
Table
of Contents
1. Building Successful Physician Organizations
2. Physician Communications
3. A Model for Collaboration and Quality Managed Care
4. Contracting and Reimbursement for Physician Organizations in a Capitated and Risk Sharing Environment
5. Selecting Information Systems for Managing Large Scale Integrated Ambulatory Networks
6. Managing the Start-up and Operations of Advanced Practice Management Information Systems
7. Advanced Management Systems for Large Multi-Location Physician Organizations
8. Outcomes and Clinical Report Card Performance Standards
9. Physicians as Leaders, Clinicians, Managers and Executives
10. Specialty Networks as a Risk Contractor
11. Primary Care Physician Organizations: The New Force in Medicine
12. Compensating Capital and Equity Issues in Physician Organizations
13. Legal Issues in Organizing and Expanding Physician Organizations
14. Creating the Future Through Physician Leadership.
Alliances:
Strategies for Building Integrated Delivery Systems
by Douglas E. Goldstein List
Price: $241.00
Published 10/21/1994
ISBN: 0834206021
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Description
This
executive report takes you step-by-step through the
process of developing integrated delivery systems. You'll
learn eleven fundamental building blocks for integration,
and how to apply these methods to redesign and improve
your existing processes and systems. Outlinned in 1995,
the eleven Building Blocks of health care delivery systems
included core activities such as Online/Teleservices,
Outcomes Management, CQI and Empowered Consumers that
are still prime objectives in the year 2002.
Table
of Contents
1. The Driving Forces of Change
2. Conducting Market Analysis for Integration
3. Preparing for Managed Care and Capitation
4. A Profile of an Integrated Delivery System
5. The Building Blocks of an Integrated Delivery System
6. Organizational Options for Integration
7. The Integrated Group Practice: The Driving Force of Integration
8. Guiding the Progressive Integration Process
9. Ambulatory Services Development
10. Capital Strategies to Support Integration
11. Organizing Information Systems for Integration
12. Legal Issues Pertaining to Integrated Health Care Organizations
13. Alliance Strategies and the Future
14. Case Studies
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