What health care can learn from the military

While the typical physician is now accepting of the IT changes that are intruding into their work environment, he often does not understand the reasons or the strategic underpinnings for the push for the digitalization of health care. Being a typical modern consumer, he understands smartphones, online shopping, and email, but doesn’t understand concepts such as clinical data repositories, data warehouses, decision support and business intelligence.  Analogies can help, but …

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