Healthcare IT News May 9, 2017
Tom Sullivan

The American Association of Family Physicians says that needs to change, and points to the kind of technology that actually enables better care.

It’s a hard reality: Technologies that hospitals are using today do not adequately support the health of Americans, according to the American Association of Family Physicians.

“We believe that new types of information and new kinds of technology are needed,” AAFP wrote in the Annals of Family Medicine. “Technology has great potential to help foster connections and relationships among healthcare professionals, individuals, and communities, and to be a catalyst instead of the barrier it frequently is today.”

In the article, Vision for a Principled Redesign of Health Information Technology, the authors laid out a roadmap that they...

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