The wired world of healthcare is our future. It’s up to us – as patients, physicians, policy makers, vendors, leaders.
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Robert M. Wachter
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The wired world of healthcare is our future. It’s up to us – as patients, physicians, policy makers, vendors, leaders and influencers – to not only make it happen, but make it work. Dr. Robert Wachter is helping champion the cause.
Named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 most influential physician executives in the U.S. for each of the past 13 years (including #1 on the list in 2015) and one of the 100 most influential people in healthcare, Dr. Wachter is a recognized thought leader in healthcare quality, safety and organization of care. A practicing physician, he is intimately familiar with and involved in both the promises and challenges related to the computerization of healthcare. His 2015 book – The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age– offers an unvarnished view of the early days of healthcare’s transformation and an insightful and provocative exploration of what it will take, from all of us, to successfully shift from “disruption” to “disruptive innovation.”
Dr. Wachter is professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is generally regarded as the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine.
A speaker and writer renowned for his iconoclastic and often humorous insights into the transforming world of healthcare, Dr. Wachter’s is the author of 250 articles and six books, including two best-sellers on the subject of safety and quality: Understanding Patient Safety (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2018 – third edition), the field’s leading primer, and Internal Bleeding (Rugged Land, 2005).
Dr. Wachter is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine (1999-2000) and past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (2012-2013). In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor in patient safety. He is on the board of the Lucian Leape Institute of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and The Doctors Company, and has also served on the healthcare advisory boards of several companies, including Google and Teledoc.
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Amazon, A.I. & Value-based Payment: Is Healthcare Finally Ripe for Transformation?
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype & Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
The Quality, Safety & Value Movements: Why Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Is No Longer Elective
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Bob Wachter, MD, Sheds Light on Physicians' Frustrations with EHRs
"The Changing Nature of Medical Errors-Case example" by Robert Wachter for OPENPediatrics
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