Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue

Here are three candid, quite revealing articles about the distaste for today's health IT that appeared recently.  I will address each,The first seems like pure deja vu (see my June 4, 2009 post "If The Military Can't Get Electronic Health Records Right, Why Would We Think Conflicted EHR Companies And IT-Backwater Hospitals Can?" at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/06/if-military-cant-get-electronic-health.html):1.  Forbes:  Pentagon's $11 Billion Healthcare Record System Will Be Obsolete Before It's Even Built -  March 3, 2015http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2015/03/03/military-healthcare-11-billion-record-system-will-be-obsolete-before-its-even-built/... No doubt about it, the project managers understand how to speak the language of acquisition reform.  However, a close look at what their site proposes to do for the 9.6 million active-duty warfighters and dependents in the military healthcare system reveals that this effort is going to fail.  It will probably be better than what it replaces, but it will lag far, far behind the kind of performance that users of internet-based technologies have come to expect.  So soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines — and their dependents — aren’t going to get the quality of care they deserve, and some will suffer mightily as a result.In order to understand why the modernization initiative is doomed to failure, you need only grasp the significance of two key...
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