“e-Patient Dave made an important point on the e-patients.net blog yesterday, “The I in IT stands for Information.” It’s a good reminder, as is the first comment to his post that, “Data is only information if you can use it.”
We’ve been trying to drive home both these points for a long time, such as in the 2005 California HealthCare Foundation Issue Brief, “Lost in Translation: Consumer Health Information in an Interoperable World”.”
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog, 10 April 2009
