The Machinery Behind Healthcare Reform: How the HIT Lobby Pushed...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sat, 05/16/2009 - 17:06

In many past posts on Healthcare Renewal I have commented on a seeming industry blindness to a growing body of literature and experiences of those "in the trenches" that throws doubts upon Utopian views of health IT as a panacea for healthcare's quality and cost problems.

I first wrote about these observations a decade ago and was merely standing on the shoulders of those who preceded me with their own critical thoughts and observations regarding cybernetic miracles in medicine....

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