The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
Robert M. Wachter · first published 2015 · ISBN 9780071849463
Wachter is a physician and patient safety expert who spent years embedded with clinicians using EHRs. The book reveals the gap between what IT vendors promise and what actually happens at the bedside: workarounds around broken workflows, alert fatigue that leads doctors to ignore critical warnings, and cases where the EHR itself created medical errors. Real hospitals and real mistakes.
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You need to see the flip side of the technological vision. This book shows why EHR implementations often go wrong, how data quality suffers, and how clinicians respond to systems that get in the way of patient care.