
The Digital Doctor
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April 15, 2015
Acknowledging that so much of the practice of modern medicine is concerned with information (gathering, organizing, and making sense of it), physician-executive Wachter views the alliance between computers and doctors as a necessary but uneasy partnership. While Wachter sees promise in the computerization of health care, he is troubled by how the digital transformation of medicine is already disrupting the doctor-patient relationship. More and more, a physician's eye contact is directed toward his or her laptop computer rather than patients. And Wachter is bothered by the absurdity of health-care billing that encourages stuffing piles of data, much of it redundant, into electronic medical records (EMRs). ER doctors now devote more than 40 percent of their time just entering information into EMRs. Wachter writes about the complexity of health-care IT systems, patient access and contributions to their office notes, IBM's Watson (the Jeopardy-champion supercomputer), and intelligent, biosensing underwear. Maybe the best take on modern medicine's man versus machine debate is provided by Warner Slack, a physician and informatics expert: Any doctor who could be replaced by a computer should be. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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