Starting new religion?

I spent some time recently on a call regarding yet another government agency's interest in interoperability in Healthcare IT. It seems, with the advent of meaningful use, interconnected healthcare IT applications and devices, that Interoperability has become the new religion. As with any new "fad", a lot of previously uninvolved organizations are trying to see how they can capitalize upon it and the existing stakeholders are looking at how they should do so also.

There are a few things that I would hope by now we all realize, but they bear repeating, because quite honestly, I don't think some of the newcomers are aware of this yet....