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Wrong Prescription for HIT Change

Today's Prescription for Change - WSJ.com reports that healthcare is about to undergo a global information technology revolution. The Journal fails to notice healthcare is in the midst of the IT revolution and is trying to resolve the many barriers unique to this industry.  For example, the article oversimplifies healthcare information exchange challenges. This is not a technology issue. The technology exists that allows information sharing. However, there are no widely accepted and agreed-upon, industry-standards for exchanging data. My earlier post already touched on this problem. Once again the press fails to fully understand a crucial problem and sets expectations beyond reasonable levels, which makes real change more difficult.

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Posted by Scott R. Coplan on October 20, 2008 12:17 PM |

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