Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age

Edited by IMAP president David Rothman and David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services, Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age is now available for purchase.  Click here to order the book through Amazon.com.

With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social and professional implications of the new technology.  Essasy explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions.  Patient use of web-based information may undermine physicians' traditional information monopoly and as case studies on kidney transplants and maternity practices reveal, patient uses of HIT may have unanticipated effects, positive and negative.  An independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized interest into the medical arena.  Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.