Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology

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Paper Kills addresses the most pressing issues in the drive to modernize and improve healthcare through health information technology. This unique book guides the reader on a tour of the evolving health information technology and health policy landscape, covering topics from protecting privacy and advancing research to building health information exchanges and achieving interoperability. Other chapters explore the role of state governments, health plans, and hospitals in implementing health information technology, as well as the potential of health IT to promote the adoption of best practices in ambulatory care and focus on prevention, wellness, and early detection.

Paper Kills was edited by David Merritt, includes an introduction by former Speaker Newt Gingrich, and features contributions from the leading minds in healthcare, such as Brandon Savage of GE Healthcare; Scott Serota of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; Richard Umbdenstock of the American Hospital Association; Glen Tullman of Allscripts; Ed Hammond of Duke University; Tom Fritz and Jac Davies of Inland Northwest Health Services; Ed Fotsch of Medem; Mark Frisse of Vanderbilt University; Richard Bankowitz, Eugene Kroch, and Meg Horgan of CareScience; Beryl Vallejo of BJV Consulting; Mark Rothstein of the University of Louisville; and Michael Heekin, chair of the Governor’s Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board for the state of Florida.

Already, CHT’s new book is being hailed as a “must-read” by the industry’s foremost experts, who offer generous praise for the latest installment from CHT Press. 

The technology that we use everyday—from a worldwide ATM network to the Internet to email—has yet to make its way into healthcare. Our healthcare system is at least a generation behind. In this presentation, CHT Project Director David Merritt explores the benefits and barriers to modernizing our healthcare through information technology.

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