Aims and Scope
Patients are more empowered to shape their own health care today than ever before. Health information technologies are creating new opportunities for patients and families to participate actively in their care, manage their medical problems and improve communication with their healthcare providers. Moreover, health information technologies are enabling healthcare providers to partner with their patients in a bold effort to optimize quality of care, improve health outcomes and transform the healthcare system on the macro-level.
In this book, leading figures discuss the existing needs, challenges and opportunities for improving patient engagement and empowerment through health information technology, mapping out what has been accomplished and what work remains to truly transform the care we deliver and engage patients in their care. Policymakers, healthcare providers and administrators, consultants and industry managers, researchers and students and, not least, patients and their family members should all find value in this book.


"In the exciting period that lies just ahead, more will be needed than simply connecting patients to clinicians, and clinicians to each other. The health care systems that will be most effective in meeting patients' needs will be those that can actually design their 'human wares' around that purpose. This book provides deep insight into how information technology can and will support that redesign."
Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health


The Editors: Drs. Maria Adela Grando, Ronen Rozenblum and David W. Bates are widely recognized professors, researchers and experts in the domain of health information technology, patient engagement and empowerment. Their research, lectures and contributions in these domains have been recognized nationally and internationally. Dr. Grando is affiliated with Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic, and Drs. Rozenblum and Bates are affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University.

Foreword by: Thomas Lee
Contributions by: Mehnaz Adnan, Wajeeh Bajwa, Marion J. Ball, Sasha Ballen, Cynthia Baur, Asaf Bitton, John Jeffrey Carr, Scott Cashon, Catalina Danis, Mary Jo Deering, Robert Farrell, Yaorong Ge, Stephanie Glier, C. Martin Harris, Jeff Harwell, David Lansky, Gene Lazuta, Gondy Leroy, Peter Lucas, Ariane Marelli, Mary McNamara, Michael L. Millenson, Marjorie Miller, Paula Miller, Martha Minniti, Jihad Obeid, Disty Pearson, Christopher Pentoney, Margaret Piscitelli, Michael Poku, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Yukari Schneider, Roy Schoenberg, Hanna Suominen, Maarten van der Heijden, Marina Velikova, Jim Warren, Eyal Zimlichman