“It seems many have difficulty coming to grips with just what impact it is that a broader use of Information Technology might have on our health system. This difficulty is also often combined with the problem of working out just how it might be possible to get from where our Health System presently is to a new Health IT enabled health system.
One way of approaching answering this question is to consider what diagnoses have been made as to what presently ails our system and then to consider how each of these ailments may be improved or even cured by an appropriate investment in an improved Health IT infrastructure and relevant applications. In approaching the question in this way I am very clearly indicating that extra investment in Health IT is a necessary but not sufficient step to create the safe, high-quality and efficient health system we all sense is possible but which seems to be very difficult to get to.”
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology, 30 September 2009
