Flawed Health IT: Whose Fault Is It?

We spent National Health IT Week peeking through the eyes of others at possible health IT futures.  So we'll start this week with the views of someone who points to a radically different future for health IT in large part by claiming that current health IT options are pretty miserable.

He starts by asking rather pointedly, "Why is health IT so bad that massive government and health system subsidies are required to drive adoption?"

He works his way toward his core answer by noting "While it may seem easy to bash legacy health IT vendors, my experience has been that vendors reflect their customers. I would take this a step further. In the case of healthcare, customers reflect the reimbursement model. It's a reimbursement model that is so broken Americans pay nearly twice as much as other countries to get inferior outcomes."