e-Patients Live Longer

The Complete Guide for Managing Health Care Using Technology is a book for all healthcare consumers to help them understand through dialogue and case studies the importance of using digital tools such as digital health records, email, patient portals, the internet and smartphones, so that they become empowered and engaged patients who participate in their care, manage their chronic conditions and communicate appropriately with their clinicians for safer, better outcomes.

Digital Communication in Medical Practice

Targeted to a healthcare clinician, illustrates how the implementation of digital communication tools such as computers, electronic health records, patient portals, email and cellphones address the complex challenges of meeting patient needs with collaborative, coordinated effective care and reducing the potential for critical medical errors.

The Electronic Office

This book, written in 1983, during the early days of computerization, introduces the steps that are required in the transition to a digital office environment. The Electronic Office outlines how to determine the most appropriate computer system for effective information flow that will support the requirements of business offices in a variety of industries as they move to automate their systems.

Digital Communication in Medical Practice

Digital Communication in Medical Practice with co-author, William F. Bria, MD, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children, published by Springer Verlag in May 2009, is targeted to a practicing clinician. This book helps providers understand how digital technologies including the internet, email, smartphones and video can enable more efficient, better quality, continuous care for patients. It addresses the frustrating issue of how too little time, too many patients and information overload hampers a clinician’s ability to provide the best possible care for each patient.

Using case studies, statistics, facts and sound argument, this book makes a strong case for why clinicians and their patients will benefit by implementing digital health records and engaging with patients using email and patient portals. Finn also illustrates how telemedicine, ICPOE (Computer Physician Order Entry), e-prescribing and collaborative doctor/pharmacist teams will provide an answer to the alarming rate of medication errors. She also emphasizes the importance of evidence-based medicine and addresses legislative initiatives that protect doctors and patients from unauthorized access to medical records. The complex challenges of cost, quality, safety and access to healthcare are well analyzed in this insightful, practical timely book.

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e-Patients Live Longer