“Last Friday, I had an opportunity to spend part of the afternoon with Dr. Don Detmer (right) during his visit to Microsoft Research. If the name isn’t familiar, Dr. Detmer is a surgeon and the immediate past president of AMIA, the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor of Medical Education at the University of Virginia. You can learn more about his distinguished career here.
As fellow clinicians and champions for greater use of ICT (Information Communications Technology) in health and healthcare, Don and I hit it off immediately. We also agreed that the missing piece in the use of ICT in clinical medicine today isn’t so much the “I” but rather the “C”. In fact, when Don talks about CT he doesn’t mean those big pieces of imaging equipment that scan your body; he’s talking about Communication and Collaboration technologies for clinical workflow.”
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Bill Crounse, HealthBlog, 17 September 2009
