Author : Habibollah Pirnejad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789085594451
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Book Synopsis Communication in Healthcare: Opportunities for Information Technology and Concerns for Patient Safety by : Habibollah Pirnejad
Download or read book Communication in Healthcare: Opportunities for Information Technology and Concerns for Patient Safety written by Habibollah Pirnejad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in health science increased human knowledge about managing diseases and life threatening issues. They caused better health management, disease control, and extended longevity especially for handicapped patients and those with chronic disease, and accordingly change the demographic features and epidemiologic characteristics of society. Healthcare systems are now increasingly challenged with regard to managing chronically ill patients and those with multiple morbidity who need the collaborative care of different healthcare professionals. However, an advance in medical knowledge also introduces more specialty and subspecialty domains into medical practice. And in an era in which healthcare services are set up around medical practice domains, a specialization trend results in healthcare organizations becoming more fragmented. Therefore, the current healthcare systems are making an inevitable migration from an acute to chronic-oriented and from centralized to decentralized care practices. Furthermore, healthcare professionals become progressively focused on their specialty domain, and speak to each other using domain-specific terms and jargons. Hence, it is difficult for professionals from different domains to understand each other. These factors contribute to the fragmentation challenge in healthcare, thus threatening the possibility of team work between diverse professionals, and making it difficult to provide integrated care for patients.