Some Real-World Lessons for the Health IT Hyper-Enthusiasts

An article was published in Health Leaders Media yesterday by Scott Mace, senior technology editor entitled "Scot Silverstein's Good Health IT and Bad Health IT" at this link.(Actually, the terms "good health IT" and "bad health IT" themselves came as a result of my discussions in Australia with Prof. Jon Patrick of my conviction, presented to the Health Informatics Society of Australia in my Aug. 2012 talk "Critical Thinking on Building Trusted, Transformative Medical Information:  Improving Health IT as the First Step", that to be trusted and do no harm, health IT must be “done well".)Scott Mace observes:Inevitably, when the subject turns to the pitfalls of bad health IT, you will find Scot Silverstein, MD, ready to comment. He has been writing about health IT difficulties since 1998.Silverstein is an adjunct professor at Drexel University who I recently interviewed for an upcoming HealthLeaders magazine story on physician resistance to health IT.A recent Silverstein blog post caught my eye for the following statement: "It is impossible for people, especially medical professionals, to be 'ready' for a system that 'is not ready for them.'"I wanted to learn about the good doctor's thinking and so I gave him a call. We spoke for two hours and it felt like scratching the surface of issues that healthcare will be facing for a good while to come. Indeed, the issues we discussed were just scratching the surface.  The real world is ever so complex.Also not...
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