“One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: legal, cultural, administrative, financial, organizational, and of course technical constraints not to omit the lack of incentives. Hence an interesting Norwegian paper by Riita Hellmann which speaks of “ubiquitous heterogeneity.”
So, is there any hope in a world of “ubiquitous heterogeneity”? Surprisingly enough, hope is all around us. This hope is Web 2.0, and it is dominating Internet growth.”
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Denise Silbert, TalkStandards, 24 February 2010
