EMR Failures and a Recipe for Their Avoidance in the Future

Bruce Friedman discusses EMR Failures and a Recipe for Their Avoidance in the Future.

"Everyone involved in healthcare information technology (HIT) is familiar with the history of frequent failure or inadequate performance of EMRs.

"For me, the answer is the wide adoption by EMR vendors of the federated system architecture whereby the ancillary content experts are allocated "white space" in the EMR to organize and populate with the information generated in their own ancillary departments.

"Drs. Ul Balis and Mark Routbort will lecture on both order entry and results reporting using a federated architecture at the Lab InfoTech Summit on April 11 in Las Vegas.

I wonder if prototyping EMR systems in Second Life might help also?