“At the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics executive subcommittee hearing on “meaningful use” of health information technology, Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality testified “We haven’t reached a system-based approach where the right thing to do is the easy thing to do.” The meaningful use of health information technology will free patients to organize to accelerate research and deliver advice independent of any particular doctor or health plan. Data mining opportunities traditionally restricted to doctors and health plans as a side-effect of their essential services will now be available to anyone that gains the trust of a patient-consumer including, for example, not-for-profits and Internet social networking groups.”
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Adrian Gropper, The Health Care Blog, 1 May 2009
