Person-Centered Health Records: Toward Healthepeople (2005)

Person-Centered Health Records: Toward HealthePeople provides essential information on person-centered healthcare systems that will serve individuals throughout their lifetime, enabling a new approach to wellness that goes far beyond outpatient visits to the physician's office or hospitalizations. The book consists of three important sections: Person-Centered Health Systems, Building New Systems: Architectural Considerations, and Approaches to the New Systems Environment. Chapter highlights include Clinical Impact, Human Factors, Health Security and Privacy, Critical Standards Convergence, and much more.

To represent the book's depth and breadth, the editors have brought together contributors from varied health care sectors in the United States and elsewhere--public and private, not-for-profit and for-profit--to explicate the concept of the electronic health record and to define the technological enablers that can make it a reality. The editors describe the concept involved in transformation, define the architectural issues and tools involved in building new person-centered systems, and describe the approaches that make it possible to integrate concept, architecture, and tools into person-centered health systems. Person-Centered Health Records: Toward HealthePeople is a must-have for those with an interest in person-centered health systems that can be built using the Web and Web-based tools. Both business and technical leaders will benefit from reading this book.