clinical computing

(Note: part 1 is here, part 2 is her

I recently attended the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2008 in Washington.

Many in the audience to the presentations were expressing puzzlement as to why HIT's diffusion was still relatively limited.

Most seemed to gravitate towards blaming physicians in one form or another. I raised the issue that perhaps there are many other factors prevalent that are not well understood, and that more research was urgently needed.

(To my surprise, the plenary session members agreed.)