NEW TITLES SORRY FOR THE DELAY
Apologies for the length of time it has been since my last post, we have been doing many training sessions for the new students over the past weeks. The health team also attended the launch of the health informatics collection, and a blog about this should be arriving shortly.
Here are the book reviews for this week, selected by Helen and with no particular topic in mind!
The art of waking people up
Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith
Jossey-Bass, Wiley 2003
This book evokes the ‘aha’ phenomenon. You will recognize immediately the somnolent state of many workers whom Cloke and Goldsmith describe. In a wonderfully written book, these incredibly wise and humane organizational experts approach the problem of workers apathy with the keen eye of the clinician, the clear- mindedness of the theoretician, and the empathic heart of the gifted therapist.
The Endangered Medical Record
Ensuring its integrity in the age of informatics
Vergil Slee et al
Tringa Press 2000
Why we still don’t know the true size of the AIDS epicemic – years after the first cases appeared in the U. S.
Why we may not catch the next Nile Flu outbreak in time
Why we can t properly track the Gulf War Syndrome problem
Why your own medical record may not help your doctor take care of you
Why NOW is a great time to correct the system
How this can be done effectively and relatively painlessly
…As medicine has moved from a quill and pen sensibility …to the era of the microchip, the importance of the properly coded medical record has grown exponentially…. Coding provides the lens through which we view everything from illness prevalence to quality improvement effectiveness to financial trends. Yet as this book disturbingly details, that lens is pockmarked with distortions.
Here are the book reviews for this week, selected by Helen and with no particular topic in mind!
The art of waking people up
Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith
Jossey-Bass, Wiley 2003
This book evokes the ‘aha’ phenomenon. You will recognize immediately the somnolent state of many workers whom Cloke and Goldsmith describe. In a wonderfully written book, these incredibly wise and humane organizational experts approach the problem of workers apathy with the keen eye of the clinician, the clear- mindedness of the theoretician, and the empathic heart of the gifted therapist.
The Endangered Medical Record
Ensuring its integrity in the age of informatics
Vergil Slee et al
Tringa Press 2000
Why we still don’t know the true size of the AIDS epicemic – years after the first cases appeared in the U. S.
Why we may not catch the next Nile Flu outbreak in time
Why we can t properly track the Gulf War Syndrome problem
Why your own medical record may not help your doctor take care of you
Why NOW is a great time to correct the system
How this can be done effectively and relatively painlessly
…As medicine has moved from a quill and pen sensibility …to the era of the microchip, the importance of the properly coded medical record has grown exponentially…. Coding provides the lens through which we view everything from illness prevalence to quality improvement effectiveness to financial trends. Yet as this book disturbingly details, that lens is pockmarked with distortions.
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