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Book SynopsisTen years after the adoption of the HITECH Act of 2009, eMessaging and the Physician/Patient Dynamic: Practices in Transition examines the complex, interlocking forces at play when mandates for electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic messaging within secured health portals forced an unprecedented transformation of the healthcare environment. Technological, sociological, medical, economic, political, governmental, legal, and communication issues converged, forever altering the medicological environment, a space within which health professionals and patients alike strive towards efficacious, satisfying transactions that lead to improved health. Susan M. Wieczorek's analysis discusses the layers of policies and regulations that thrust healthcare usersoften unwillinglyinto the newly required practice of online communication between physicians and patients. Wieczorek also compares and contrasts rural and urban early adoption practices through the use of surveys, critical incident re
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Physician/Patient Electronic Message: Elements of Change Chapter 2: The Interlocking Perspectives Chapter 3: The Medicological Environment Chapter 4: The Rural Environment: Testing the Landscape Chapter 5: The Urban Environment: Implementing the Process Chapter 6: The Paradigmatic Shift within the Medicological Environment
