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Escaping the EHR Trap — The Future of Health IT

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  • Kenneth D. Mandl, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • and Isaac S. Kohane, M.D., Ph.D.

The myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems continues to justify soaring costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation. But there's a clear path toward better tools for health care's complex tasks.

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Author Affiliations

From the Children's Hospital Informatics Program; the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; and the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School — all in Boston.

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