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The Alternative Route: Hanging Out The Unmentionables For Better Decision Making In Health Information Technology

¹ David Kibbe is a senior adviser, American Academy of Family Physicians; chair of the E31 Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics, ASTM International; and principal of the Kibbe Group LLC in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
² Curtis McLaughlin is professor emeritus and an adjunct professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

^*Corresponding author.

Abstract

Expert panels and policy analysts have often ignored potential contributions to health information technology (IT) from the Internet and Web-based applications. Perhaps they are among the "unmentionables" of health IT. Ignoring those unmentionables and relying on established industry experts has left us with a standards process that is complex and burdened by diverse goals, easy for entrenched interests to dominate, and reluctant to deal with potentially disruptive technologies. We need a health IT planning process that is more dynamic in its technological forecasting and inclusive of IT experts from outside the industry. [Health Affairs 27, no. 5 (2008): w396-w398 (published online 19 August 2008; 10.1377/hlthaff.27.5.w396)]

Key Words: Business Of Health, Consumer Issues, Health Reform, Quality Of Care, Research And Technology, Health Information Technology

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