Transforming Health Care: The Financial Impact of Technology, Electronic Tools, and Data Mining -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Emergence of Electronic Tools -- Real-Time Health Care Begins -- The Paperless Revolution: Let's Get Going! -- A Life-Saving Breakthrough -- The Dawn of the Patient Record -- The Digital Age Dawns -- The Kaiser Permanente Experience -- Electronic Health Records: All You, All Digital -- From the Back Office to Better Health -- From Paper to EMRs to EHRs to the Future -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Future: Health Information Exchanges and Health Financial Exchanges -- Jumping the Hurdles -- Just Connect -- Lonely EMRs -- Patient-Centered Care -- Health Care Just Got Smarter -- The Road Ahead -- Health Financial Exchanges -- HIEs and HFEs Serve the Patient and Create Profit -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Investing in Healthcare IT Innovations: Where the Winners Are -- The ATM Parallel -- Consumers: Ahead of the Curve -- Up Next: Mobile Banking and Mobile Health -- Investing in Winning Healthcare IT Innovation -- #1: Cloud Computing Gets Past the Pain Point of Cost -- #2: Analytics for Big Data Sets -- #3: Telehealth Is Mobile Health, Too -- #4: Detail-Oriented Innovations -- Looking for Investment in All the Right Places -- Opportunities for Innovation and Return on Investment Abound -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Virtual Visits: Care Anywhere and Care Everywhere -- Easier Than Programming Your TV Remote Control -- Rx for Good Health: No Waiting with mHealth -- Mobile Health Is Personal Health -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Connected Care Teams: Delivering Care via Technology -- Telehealth for One-Stop Care -- In the Hospital -- Telemedicine: A Changing Role -- Changing Practices -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Helping as Many People as We Can -- Notes.

Chapter 6: Three Key Players Driving Healthcare IT Innovation -- Government: Rewarding Success Instead of Funding Failure -- Government: Guardrails, Handrails, and Connectors -- Government: Seed Money for Healthcare IT -- HITECH Help -- Health Care Innovation Awards -- Payers: Healthcare Plans and Insurers Enter the EHR Market -- Payers Leap into Accountable Care -- The Private Sector: Leveraging Technology, Filling Unmet Needs -- Action by Government, Payers, and the Private Sector Needed to Succeed -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Global Healthcare IT: Three Case Studies -- Denmark: Fostering Digital Health Care -- HIT Foundation -- Factors behind Denmark's Success -- Bumps in the Road -- Ahead for Denmark -- The Netherlands: A Controversy over National Health Records -- New Zealand: Interoperability Leader -- Easing into Healthcare IT -- A "Distributed" Approach -- Global Lessons Hold Domestic Value -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Real-Time Learning: Instant Data Mining and Medical Breakthroughs -- Introducing Real-Time Analytic Systems -- Medicine's New Superstar-The Health Data Analyst -- Care Registries: Putting Data into Practice -- Putting It All Together -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Predictive Medicine: Saving Time, Money, and Lives -- Saving Time, Money, Lives -- Portable Care: Health Information Exchanges -- World-Class Care for Everyone: Care Registries -- Future Health: Research and Predictive Care -- From Prevention to Prediction -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Connected System: Uniting Doctors, Patients, Payers, and Government -- Connected Care: It's Personal -- At Stake: Your Health and Your Money -- Proactive Care: It Really Works! -- Solving the Healthcare Spending Crisis -- Getting There from Here: A Road Map -- Factor #1: Rapid Growth of Investments in Innovative Technology -- Factor #2: People with Passion, Patience, Determination.

Factor #3: Government Incentives, Not Heavy Mandates -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.