Information Technology IT Failure in Health Care -EHR

Major advancements have been made in the field of information technology (IT) and in the discipline of biomedical information scienceorbiomedicalinformaticssince the invention of the general purpose electronic computer roughly sixty years ago.As a result of these advancements and the synergies they have enabled, in recent years many of the early - and often overstated - predictions about the use of computers in medicine have become at least technically feasible.

Yet diffusion of clinical information technology (IT specifically intended for useby clinicians in clinical care settings) after 30-plus years of effort and billions of dollars spent remains limited.As per the 2008 statistics in the NEJM article "Electronic...