Tanner, Adam
Summary: Hidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of our prescriptions, hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of names but still containing identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 TANSummary: Whether they are needed to ensure properly dispensed prescriptions, monitor a patient's recovery, or make an urgently needed diagnosis, accurate health records are crucial to a patient's safety. This program highlights the important work of health information technicians and shows how electronic health records can help make medical care both safer and more efficient. In-depth commentary on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007