Navigating the Code

<p>Healthcare by its nature is not a particularly innovative endeavor. Unlike autos which are always changing there are set time-tested ways to practice medicine. Yet does that mean physicians must adhere to business and administrative practices and processes that are fifty seventy a hundred years old? </p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Barry P. Chaiken thinks not. In this he is not alone to be sure. In proposing a practical solution he is. Chaiken with his experience as a physician and his belief that information technology is the greatest problem-solving tool has drawn these two endeavors together to solve the greatest medical and business problem of the 21st century. </p><p><br></p><p>The result: <strong>Revolutionary Healthcare Information Technology</strong>. </p><p><br></p><p>The author's simple convincing thesis is based on a simple premise: we must open ourselves to change. Once we do so he explains how this openness can help us out of our longstanding malaise and guide us toward a transformative healthcare experience for both the patient and the physician. With painstaking honesty and practicality <em>Navigating the Code</em> presents a simple factual businesslike approach to solving healthcare's problems. But don't take his word for it: the book presents the views of eighteen thought-leaders in medicine and healthcare information technology. </p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Chaiken delineates the RHIT solution in five Parts: </p><p><br></p><p><em>Part I</em> explains the depth and breadth of healthcare's problems worldwide then its issues with technology change and business management; </p><p><br></p><p><em>Part II</em> presents RHIT as the essential tool for change management and the transformation which accrues from its implementation; </p><p><br></p><p><em>Part III</em> develops a deeper more encompassing understanding of change management for creating an integrated workflow for clinicians patients and the business; </p><p><br></p><p><em>Part IV</em> explores the application of RHIT and its transformational impact on the Hippocratic Code of quality access outcomes and financial investment by both the patient and the provider; and </p><p><br></p><p><em>Part V </em>draws everything together in two chapters in the marriage of economics and interoperability and the emerging connected adaptive healthcare organization.</p>