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At "Are Dissmissive Industry and Government Reactions to Physician Concerns about EHR's and other Clinical IT Simply Perverse?" I observed that cavalier dismissals of physician reports on HIT unusability and difficulties fit quite well the definition of "perverse:"

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Perverse (adj).

One of the favorite debates people involved in IT seem to like to have is over the meaning of "failure" of IT projects.

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Main Entry: fail·ure