The Diagnostician
American Healthcare Is Sick, Misdiagnosed, and Getting Worse; It's Time to Call the Doctor.
A physician and career CMIO applies medicine's oldest tool, the diagnostic method, to American healthcare itself. Seventeen chapters take the history, read the evidence, commit to a working diagnosis, and write the treatment plan an industry has been refilling without one.
Forewords by David Lubarsky, MD, MBA, and W. Ed Hammond, PhD
Physician-led clinical informatics
Physician executive leadership for all the systems that support healthcare.
I bring the physician's clinical method to health systems: take the history, examine the work, read the data honestly, commit to a written diagnosis, then treat and follow up. When the seat is empty, I can hold it.
Start freely. Bring me in when you need my judgment.
The book makes the argument. The Exam Room lets you test it on your own organization, free. The practice is there when the findings need a physician.
Seventeen chapters. Seventeen examinations.
Every chapter ends with Bedside Questions. Here each one becomes a short exam of your own organization, scored by whether your team can answer with evidence.
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It is the rare book that takes a history, examines the patient, reads the data honestly, and reasons its way to a treatment.
David A. Lubarsky, MD, MBA · President & CEO, WMCHealth
This is one of the best books I have read.
W. Ed Hammond, PhD · Duke Center for Health Informatics
A must-read for everyone in healthcare.
Jacques Orces, DO, MS, FAAP · Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Learn the method, not just the tools
A parallel education track for physicians and informaticists: Rounds, Clerkship, Residency, Fellowship and the Attending Seminar. Video, slides and workbooks built on the book's clinical method.
A monthly case, worked through the clinical method.
Seventeen modules, one per chapter.
Ten units. Your own organization is the capstone.
Three decades in the seat
UAMS
CMIO and Associate Vice Chancellor; Assistant Professor of Clinical Informatics. Built Arkansas's first clinical informatics MS and PhD program.
Aspirus Health
VP and Chief Medical Information Officer for 18 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations.
Miami Children's
CMIO, then Chief Informatics and Analytics Officer. Now Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
Arkansas SHARE
Medical and Executive Officer, stabilizing the state health information exchange.