Sociological Perspectives on Improving Medical Diagnosis Emphasizing CAD

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Author(s): Joel Fisher (Department of State, United States Government, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 9
Source title: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Medicine and Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7489-7.ch009

Keywords: Clinical Science / Medical Diagnosis and Practice / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Healthcare costs worldwide are increasing because of new medicines, new techniques, and more expensive and extensive research on diseases. It is essential that healthcare delivery systems be implemented that take advantage of these advances in a cost-effective economic manner. One critical aspect of the healthcare delivery system is the improvement in diagnosis of disease. This chapter emphasizes diagnosis and the need to collect key patient information (pivotal information) at the earliest possible point in the patient's disease process and put such pivotal information in physicians' hands. There is a potential for huge benefits in cost savings and greater effectiveness of treatment from these actions, but challenges must be overcome to realize their full benefits. The major problems include (1) market incentives in the current healthcare system, which fail to encourage collecting pivotal medical information as early as possible, (2) physician resistance to some of these ideas, and (3) technical and ethical problems that remain to be solved.

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