Comments on: Will Medical IT increase cost? Is slow adoption better?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:43:18 +0000

Great article and nice blog.

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By: Vince Kuraitis

Vince Kuraitis — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:56:20 +0000

The authors do an excellent job of framing the issues.

However, the pronouncement that âA tradeoff therefore exists between seeking more standardization to allow for greater adoption and less standardization to allow for greater product differentiation.â?

is NOT wise.

This is a classic example arguing that we need to have perfect standards and complete agreement before taking a step; this is what’s been holding back HCIT adoption for the past 20 years.

The Continuity of Care Record (CCR) http://www.medrecinst.com/pages/about.asp?id=54 is an example of looking at this issue from the other end of the telescope — using Pareto principles to identify the 80% of value that can be gleaned by achieving agreement on 20% of the relevant patient data.