Below are a few thoughts I submitted to the WSJ Healthblog at http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/11/12/a-doc-warns-of-magical-thinking-on-health-it/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
Interesting to note that they refer to the IT as it. That’s because healthcare IT is being approached as a solution looking for a problem. In may respects, the problem providers are trying to solve is the one created by Washington (the city, not the 1st president) mandating EHR.
If that’s the problem a provider is trying to solve, all solutions look good. Healthcare providers need to approach HIT and EHR as real business problems, problems that require adult supervision, thoughtful analysis, and program officers with a track record of implementing big, hairy IT projects.
What’s your take on it?
Pale Rhino Consulting 
what is your take on RHIOs?
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I am hard pressed to make a business argument for RHIOs-I don’t see how having a multitude of hand-offs without doing anything to the data does anything other than complicate the model.
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