Hospital & Healthcare Management March 10, 2021
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in The Life of Reason, published in 1905. It is a quote that often comes into my mind when I think about the profound changes taking place in health information technology today.
It was not so long ago that healthcare moved away from best-of-breed solutions – which were almost invariably poorly integrated – in favour of large, unified enterprise systems. Unlike best-of-breed, unified systems can support entire patient journeys within a healthcare organisation and provide clinicians with access to longitudinal, patient-centric records to help inform decision making anywhere, anytime.
However, shortly after unified systems were implemented, we saw the pendulum swing again. People began to dislike...
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