Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
Does innovation overshadow prevention?
...We are in the midst of a much-needed transformation of the U.S. health
care system. At the root of this transformation is correction of our
current system’s over-dependence on procedures, technology, and emergent
care at the expense of prevention and public health. While innovation
will remain an important component of the American medical
establishment, it cannot continue to overshadow a solid foundation of
primary care...RWJF
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.