While trolling the web, I found this great article written by a physician about why doctors hate EMRs. Electronic Medical Records, or its cousin EHR and even PHR, are supposed to help physicians provide better quality care to patients, ideally at lower costs to the society. However, as you can see in this article, http://www.dillingerkovach.com/accusourcecareers/?p=10501, [...]
For years, healthcare IT has been dominated by big players and arcane system architecture that resembled the ERP market in the 1990s. Playing into this is the vendor dominated CCHIT certification process, which required everything under the sky to pass, but did little to ensure the software support a better care delivery or even integration [...]
Many IT industry pundits you speak to these days will call out healthcare IT as one of the up and coming hot areas in the software business. However, what does up and coming really mean? There have been plenty of flame outs and problems of health IT projects in the news too.
I am very optimistic [...]