Who Can Solve Healthcare IT's Challenges? Part 1

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sun, 01/18/2009 - 21:58

In previous posts on the National Research Council report on HIT, the Joint Commission Sentinel Events Alert, and others on HC Renewal I've alluded to my belief that a root cause of the state of healthcare information technology (high cost, low diffusion, poor usability, poor interoperability, low reliability, questionable benefits, lack of features most helpful to clinicians, etc.) is - to be frank - industry dysfunction .

Poorly led, mismanaged, conflicted, opportunistic, sometimes even unethical vendors, overly...


 

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