Federal health IT efforts are too focused on standards and do not consider long-term medical outcome goals, according to an article published Tuesday on the Health Affairs Web site, Modern Healthcare reports.
Carol Diamond, managing director of the Markle Foundation’s health program, and Clay Shirky, adjunct professor in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University, wrote that the health care industry is “a long way off” from the use and implementation of standards to allow health care providers to exchange information.
