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From the Editor

Health Information Technology: On The Fast Track At Last?

A MAJOR ANOMALY OF THE Information Age is that a huge sector of the U.S. economy has been so lacking—and for so long—in its use of information technology (IT). As dozens of major industries retooled themselves in the 1980s around new means of conveying, processing, and analyzing information, health care largely sat on the sidelines. We all suffered. How many deaths or injuries have occurred because clinicians lacked the right information about the right patient at the right time—when much or all of it could have been acted upon through the use of health IT?

Just why health care lagged . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan Dentzer, Editor-In-Chief

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