Welcome to ITdotHealth, a National Health Information Technology (HIT) Forum. ITdotHealth has been created through an interfaculty collaboration at Harvard University. The last year has seen unprecedented plans for investment in HIT by the federal government and we see an urgent need for developing a common set of expectations about the [...]]]>

Welcome to ITdotHealth, a National Health Information Technology (HIT) Forum. ITdotHealth has been created through an interfaculty collaboration at Harvard University. The last year has seen unprecedented plans for investment in HIT by the federal government and we see an urgent need for developing a common set of expectations about the technical, scientific, policy, and business implications of this transformative and rapidly evolving trend.

We launch ITdotHealth initially focused on a single cutting-edge issue—an innovative and novel approach to developing a health information technology platform that supports substitutable applications. This focus derives from a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March called “No Small Change for the Health Information Economy.” This paper argued that HIT should look a lot more like an iPhone than it currently does. The ITdotHealth launch coincides with an invitational meeting on an HIT platform at Harvard on September 29 and 30, 2009. The output of that meeting will be posted here.

Read more about ITdotHealth and the ITdotHealth knol Collection.

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