“As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and techniques are often embraced with vigor. To be sure, new technologies can suffer from poor implementation. Systems need to be selected, workflows altered, and the inevitable kinks ironed out. Change is hard. Yet, in my experience, after an individual or organization undergoes the transition from paper to digital, few would ever pull the plug and say, “Paper is better”.”
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Sachin H. Jain, HBS Alumni Bulletin, June 2010
