Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities
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Health information technology: fallacies and sober realities
Current research suggests that the rate of adoption of health information technology (HIT) is low, and that HIT may not have the touted beneficial effects on quality of care or costs. The twin issues of the failure of HIT adoption and of HIT efficacy stem primarily from a series of fallacies about HIT. We discuss 12 HIT fallacies and their implications for design and implementation. These falla...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.005637