Jorge Ferrer – författare

As adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR-Ss) shifts from early adopters to mainstream, an increasingly large group of decision makers must assess what they want from EHR-Ss and how to go about making their choices. The purpose of this book is to inform that decision. This book explains typical needs of a variety of stakeholders, describes current and imminent technologies, and assesses the available evidence regarding issues in implementing and using EHR-Ss.Divided into four important sections--Needs, Current State, Technology, and Going Forward--the book provides the background and general notions regarding the EHRS and lays out the framework; delves into the historical review; presents a high-level view of EHR systems, focused on the needs of different stakeholders in the health care and the health enterprise; offers practical views of existing systems and current (and short-term future) issues in specifying a EHR system and deciding how to approach the institution of such a system; deals with technology issues, from front- to back-end; and describes where we are and where we should be going with EHR systems.Designed for use by chief information officers, chief medical informatics officers, medical liaisons to hospital systems, private practitioners, and business managers at academic and non-academic hospitals, care management organizations, and practices. The book could be used in any medical or health informatics course, at any level (undergrad, fellowship, MBA).

As adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR-Ss) shifts from early adopters to mainstream, an increasingly large group of decision makers must assess what they want from EHR-Ss and how to go about making their choices. The purpose of this book is to inform that decision. This book explains typical needs of a variety of stakeholders, describes current and imminent technologies, and assesses the available evidence regarding issues in implementing and using EHR-Ss.Divided into four important sections--Needs, Current State, Technology, and Going Forward--the book provides the background and general notions regarding the EHRS and lays out the framework; delves into the historical review; presents a high-level view of EHR systems, focused on the needs of different stakeholders in the health care and the health enterprise; offers practical views of existing systems and current (and short-term future) issues in specifying a EHR system and deciding how to approach the institution of such a system; deals with technology issues, from front- to back-end; and describes where we are and where we should be going with EHR systems.Designed for use by chief information officers, chief medical informatics officers, medical liaisons to hospital systems, private practitioners, and business managers at academic and non-academic hospitals, care management organizations, and practices. The book could be used in any medical or health informatics course, at any level (undergrad, fellowship, MBA).

One of the hottest political issues today concerns ways to improve national healthcare systems without incurring further costs. An extensive study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the United States formally reported that computer-based patient records are absolutely necessary to help contain the cost explosion in health care. The information obtained from experts, the studies conducted, and the conclusions that went into the IOM''s report have now been collected in Aspects of the Computer-Based Patient Record. A large portion of the volume discusses the state-of-the-art in existing computer-based systems as well as the essential needs which must be addressed by future computer-based patients'' records. A final section in the book discusses implementation strategies for changing to the electronic system and practical issues: Who will bear the final cost? How and when will healthcare providers who use the system be trained? This volume contains the concise, valuable information which hospital administrators, hospital systems designers, third-party payer groups, and medical technology providers will need if they hope to successfully transit to hospital systems which use a computer-based patient record.

Un inclasificable libro de alguien que quiere olvidar recordando. Un texto emocionante y perturbador que nos acerca en carne propia a los grandes debates de nuestro tiempo: la revolución, la libertad, el exilio y la guerra.Jorge Ferrer pasó casi una década en Moscú, como tantos otros hijos de la élite cubana. Pero lo que iban a ser los años de formación y adoctrinamiento en la patria original del comunismo acabaron siendo los de la experiencia de la libertad, la perestroika y la glásnot de Gorbachov y la caída del Muro de Berlín. Con ese anhelo regresó a Cuba, donde participó en el colectivo Paideia para tratar de sacar la cultura fuera de los rígidos moldes oficiales. El resultado de esa empresa se saldó con su exilio en Barcelona. De esa triple experiencia nace este libro excepcional que, como las matrioskas, contiene varios libros sucesivos. Entre Rusia y Cuba es la historia de una saga familiar de tres generaciones y de sus contrastantes relaciones con el poder y el desarraigo; es una reflexión sobre el mito de la revolución y su inestable carga de esperanza y destrucción; es un acercamiento profundo al alma rusa y una meditación irónica sobre la idiosincrasia cubana, sobre los fantasmas del pasado y las limitaciones de la historia; es una mirada fresca al debate irresuelto entre memoria y olvido; es un recuento de agravios y también un retablo rebosante de vida.«De entre las muchas herramientas que necesita quien visite una dictadura con ánimo de escribir sobre ella o, simplemente, de pasar unos días observándola, hay sólo una que resulta imprescindible: el billete de vuelta». Jorge Ferrer