“Electronic medical records not seen as a cure-all“
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Press Release Emerging Consensus to Create a ‘Health Internet’ With Broad Consumer Engagement Harvard meeting explores how health information technology can be modeled on “iPhone-like” platform to spur innovation and reduce costs BOSTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As government, industry and academic leaders work to transform the nation’s health information system, there is increasing interest in the notion [...] Keynotes at the September 29th and 30th 2009 invitational Harvard Meeting on a HIT Platform include: Regina Herzlinger, author of Who Killed Health Care?: America’s $2 Trillion Medical Problem – and the Consumer-Driven Cure Substitutability is a property of software applications that allows the users of such systems fine grained choice and control of the way their computing environment works for them without. This is in marked contrast to existing healthcare applications, particularly electronic health records which are typically monolithic and do not allow substitution for functions by other vendors without extensive technical support, it at all possible. I review here early questions that follow from the adoption of a substitutability model in health care information technology. Leading health care information technology researchers, physicians, and renowned experts in innovation released a set of core principles to guide the creation of a new health information infrastructure to better support the nation’s complex and evolving health system. The principles follow up on a Perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine in [...] |
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