Re: Editorial: RHIO's and the Illusion of Health I

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Re: Editorial: RHIO's and the Illusion of Health I
by Scot M. Silverstein, MD on Monday December 12, @04:52PM

In fact, it's inflated claims and promises that reduce chances for health IT success, through clinician disillusionment. These claims of cybernetic medical miracles have been made for decades (perhaps since the days of vaccuum-tube-based, mercury delay column-memory computers)...

In fact, I sat on the technology committee of the Delaware RHIO (Delaware Health Information Network) of the state health care commission for several years and contributed substantially to the initial planning phases. However, leadership elected to higher positions of authority the very people in charge of clinical computing at the hospital where I was Director of Informatics. If other RHIO's import such people, then they are destined to have the same (or lower) success rates as hospital-based clinical computing.

My thoughts on these issues are at http://home.aol.com/medinformaticsmd/failurecases.htm and have resided there for about seven years now.

Regards,

Scot

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