We are now seven years in to the concerted launch of a truly national health information technology platform. Always a good time to see how it’s going. I’ve been to HIMSS with a few different hats on and have been talking fairly publicly about Meaningful Use and about moving technology to a place where it becomes a more flexible tool to support physicians so they can improve patient care. I’m certainly not bashful about what we need to do better and I’m not going to be bashful, even in the face of some very good reasons for optimism, to point to where we all need to take our game up.
We’ve all made a great start but we’re still at a stage where technology often hurts, instead of helping, physicians provide better patient care. And we are committed to taking a page out of consumer technology playbook and taking a user-centered approach to designing policy. I’m asking you to redouble your efforts to do the same.
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