Chapter 27A Vision for Health Information Technology
The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.
In researching this book, I interviewed nearly 100 people from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds—frontline clinicians, world experts in artificial intelligence and big data, aviation engineers and pilots, federal policy makers, CEOs of major IT companies, entrepreneurs, patients and their families.39 Unsurprisingly, they gave vastly differing answers to many of today’s core questions in health information technology: What is the appropriate role of government? Why is usability so bad? Is Epic really open or closed? Are computers dehumanizing the practice of medicine? Will we need doctors ...
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